Right here we got a lot of shoal water. You can go off a long ways and still only get 10 or 12 fathoms. On the other side of the bay you get deep water. For groundfish you got to go off a ways. We used to be in 160 to 230 fathoms of water. The deepest water in Fortune Bay is 299 fathoms and that's over there to Belleoram, up in Belle Bay we calls it. When we had the cod fishery open we used to be down in the bottom of the bay, down around Rencontre. We'd also be off of Belleoram, on the other side of the bay to fish for turbot. We used to leave around 2:30 in the morning to have two or three hours steaming in the longliner. And we used to go down around Grand Jarby, which is almost down to Bay L'Argent. We used to be down there for flounder. You wouldn't get much, but you'd end up with a day's pay.

When we go at the lobsters, the first day you would do good, you'd probably get, say, 250 lobsters. Everybody loves to get out and haul because you know you're not going to get another haul like that. When it comes to June, you're down to 100 or less a week. The middle of June, if you can get 50 for a week you're doing good. We sets our lobster pots in fleets, eight to a fleet. You're going to be a lot longer hauling individual pots than you are by fleets. A lot of people don't know what you're talking about when you tell them you're setting in fleets. Seems like the first week you be's tired, but after that it's just as easy as hand over hand with your rope. When we come down to camp we have them half hauled and sometimes we come in for a cup of tea, just take off the oil jacket, go on in pants and rubbers on. And then you come out and haul the other ones. The first part of the year, the first few weeks, you'd probably finish 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. 'cause you be trying to get back into the rhythm and finding out exactly where the lobsters is. That takes a little bit of time. When you get them hauled, then you just go in for a lunch, and you'd go off then to your lump nets.