You're gonna need a bigger hoopnet

[alanw]

18 pound lobster caught at Huntington Beach pier

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-diver-bags-huge-lobster--20131211,0,7142298.story#axzz2nIZLzE00

[Dannowar]

18 pounds.....i dunnooooo....looks like 12-14 MAX

[Aaron&Julie]

No doubt he couldn't hang on to it with one hand, and had to bear hug it.

[Aaron&Julie]

18 pounds.....i dunnooooo....looks like 12-14 MAX

Yeah, that thought occurred to me, too. Even 12-14 looks like it's pushing it. He looks like a slight kind of guy, so maybe he was standing on the bathroom scale with it when he weighed it, and it's their combined weight:biggrinjester:
Personally, I don't think Shaq has big enough hands to grab an 18lber with one hand.

Well, at least it got him in the L.A. Times, apparently a newspaper that doesn't require proof before posting fiction/facts.

[Iceman]

I recently saw a 9 pounder that looked more impressive than that one.

[erinoo]

what do you think these weigh?:lobster:??

[Fiskadoro]

I recently saw a 9 pounder that looked more impressive than that one.

Looks about 9 or 10 max. Look how thin the legs are, how he's holding it by one hand, one antenna, barehanded, and only by a few fingers.

What an amateur. That lobster is half the size he says it is, and now since he's told the whole frigging world there will be hundreds of people working that pier. I'm not sure what's the bigger joke the fact they printed the lobster was twice the size it is based on this attention seekers word, or the DFG saying that any lobster over five pounds is a trophy. The average lobster fisherman who really knows what he's doing can get five pound lobsters almost every other trip and at least one or two lobsters larger then that one every season.


Here's my buddy Hugh with one that's over ten (Hugh just called up and said it was almost 12) For scale Hugh's like 6'3" and over 250.

[jorluivil]

Yeah........I'm calling 10lbs max.......maybe 11 if its still wet.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-52a905d1/turbine/la-me-huge-lobster-at-001/395


this one was 18lbs


http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/showthread.php/122588-Record-Book-Bug







http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=113331&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1223572445

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=113332&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1223572445

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=113333&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1223572445

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=113334&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1223572587

http://www.bdoutdoors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=113338&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1223572587

[erinoo]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-52a905d1/turbine/la-me-huge-lobster-at-001/395

I doubt this is even 10 lbs. My biggest one posted holding with both hands was just under 10lbs. The other was just over 8 lbs and it looks very close in size to his.

[Dannowar]

Here's 11.5 weighed at fishermans landing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/littlehammet/8b91f0e8.jpg (http://s.photobucket.com/user/littlehammet/media/8b91f0e8.jpg.html)

Here's 10.5 weighed with a rapala digi. 24" at the antennae base.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/littlehammet/f4678d274e5f07cecec9eb0cbf7d5a27.jpg (http://s.photobucket.com/user/littlehammet/media/f4678d274e5f07cecec9eb0cbf7d5a27.jpg.html)


I call shenanigans on 18 pounds

[alanw]

I have to agree with all you guys, no way that dude's catch is #18

[Old Man in the Sea]

DAM all these HUGE MONSTERS - Danno - did you get that from your kayak???
:you_rock:

[Dannowar]

Heavens no!

[easyday]

Haha definitely not 18 lbs. Speaking of which I haven't been hooping in a while I need to get back out there.

[wbrewski]

Are these the result of the reactor accident in japan?????????:the_finger:

[Scion619]

what do you think these weigh?:lobster:??

Wow nice one boss!!!!!
From thrasher btw

[jorluivil]

How many more friends or family members are going to say, "did you hear about the 18lb lobster that some guy caught"?