Lobster

[odinberg]

i can only haul one pot, if i try hauling the rest of my pots then it says that there was no fish in the pot.. even tough there was alot of lobster on the sonar, is there any solution for this? And yes, i am on the beta version

[DaMatth]

same here with snow crabs on newest beta branch.

[cbnnr]

At the moment for lobsters I can only use single pots effectively.

[KaptainKarl]

Dont set too close together

[Naut Enough]

if your doing single pots keep a distance of around 200m between your pots and that will help when doing single pots. closer and you will have reduced and a lot of empty pots is what I've found over the last 120hours irl time testing lobster fishing through the various patches since release. for setting don't allow your crew to set them.. find the lobster slowly then stop and manually drop the pots yourself that way can do proper spacing between them.. Also of course make sure your within season as outside of season they patched it to greatly reduce catch #'s.. strings appear to be completely broken atm if fishing the larger boats can't make enough to pay your expenses. hopefully they will fix it all soon as have to go longlining to be able to make money to be able to afford to pay the bills while ya lose money lobstering or crabbing atm on the big boats...

[grolbu]

I went out lobstering last night in the little boat that only holds 9 pots, you have to do everything yourself because it doesn't take any crew. I got a pot ready then set the autopilot chugging along at about 8 knots with the sonar set to 250 metres. When a lobster appeared I dropped the pot on it then went back and got another pot ready, and waited until the lobster I had dropped on had vanished off of the screen. Seemed to work.

I wish there was a small (and cheap) boat that did crab fishing !

[cbnnr]

Okay so after another beta update, I took Knots Guilty out and tried 10 pot strings, the plan was to do it all manually, found a very good location. Dropped 5 strings all correctly, sadly drops 6 and 7 got to close to each other as I didnt realise the boat was in reverse when i dropped 7 so it was to close to 6.

Anyways first lesson, I cannot sort fast enough to keep up with time, by set of pots 4 they had gone green. Either let the staff create the ten pot strings so it takes longer or add time gaps.

Otherwise got over 7000 kg which was around 120k with no fines. So knots Guilty is definately viable and I also found the crew member sorted as fast (probably faster than me they sorted 6 and 7 (less lobster than me) and I also didnt pick up any fines, (she has crab sorting of ten currently). I definately could see a run of 20 strings of ten pots filling the boat (20kg) and making a good amount.

What I would like to see is No Yankee having a few more pots so she is a little more viable (she is currently enjoyable) maybe up to 12?

[FearFTW]

Originally posted by cbnnr:

Okay so after another beta update, I took Knots Guilty out and tried 10 pot strings, the plan was to do it all manually, found a very good location. Dropped 5 strings all correctly, sadly drops 6 and 7 got to close to each other as I didnt realise the boat was in reverse when i dropped 7 so it was to close to 6.

Anyways first lesson, I cannot sort fast enough to keep up with time, by set of pots 4 they had gone green. Either let the staff create the ten pot strings so it takes longer or add time gaps.

Otherwise got over 7000 kg which was around 120k with no fines. So knots Guilty is definately viable and I also found the crew member sorted as fast (probably faster than me they sorted 6 and 7 (less lobster than me) and I also didnt pick up any fines, (she has crab sorting of ten currently). I definately could see a run of 20 strings of ten pots filling the boat (20kg) and making a good amount.

What I would like to see is No Yankee having a few more pots so she is a little more viable (she is currently enjoyable) maybe up to 12?

Did you test with crew dropping pots also?

[cbnnr]

No just manual pot drop.