THE SALTY METER

It is Spring and as you can see from several of the training regimens and our countdown clock we are reaching the peak training period for mini season. To help our team better focus on their "trouble zones" we are going to begin to unveil the salty meter. Here we will rank everyone in a variety of categories including but not limited to: Experience, catching skill, rookie performance, drinking ability, and intangibles.

Everyone will be ranked on a scale of 1-10 lobster tails (1 is probably going to be the lowest score) in all of the categories. You can also check this link for overall scores.

Today's Entries

Experience:

Mr. Wolf:
I believe the sheer fact that we still call him Mr. Wolf may be enough to justify an extremely high ranking but there is even more to this salty dog. While he has only physically been with us on one trip, he has been catching lobster, with his bare teeth, longer than any of us have been alive. Born and raised in South Florida Mr. Wolf has been participating in lobster season since before there was a lobster season. We aren't exactly sure how old he is, but we are pretty sure he has more experience than all of us combined.
total experience lobsters: 10

Intangibles:

Captain Awesome:

Don't be deceived by the title. The "captain" is not in regards to his position on the boat, it instead refers to the fact that he pretty much saves our asses at least once a trip. A quick selection of the multiple things John brings to the table

Tide Charts: Check
Empty lot to store the boat trailer for 11.75 months: Check
Knowledge to fix the engine (while at sea) multiple times: Check

The only thing that is keeping Captain Awesome from a 10 out of 10 in intangibles is his life threatening allergy to all dairy and wheat products. This really makes it a pain in the ass to cook the lobster feast.

Good luck improving on that.
total intangible lobsters: 9

Rookie Performance:

The Zipp:

His explosion onto the lobstering scene was more than 15 years ago. He immediately underwhelmed. His rookie exploits:

• Throw a lobster tail away
• Inability to catch a lobster
• Swimming test-not yet in place
  
• Probable Sunburn (it was a really a long time ago but this probably happened)

The first two points are enough to lower his rookie performance significantly but not enough to totally sink him. To be fair a lot of people fail to catch a keeper on their first or even second trip. What really hurts his score is that he had the opportunity to jump in after the tail he so nonchalantly threw into the canal to save it, however, he didn't make that effort.

He is hampered a little bit by not having had the opportunity for a structured swimming test like so many of our newer recruits which may have helped salvage his score.

The only thing preventing a 1 lobster score for Josh is the fact that every newbie gets to here the story about a tail getting thrown into the water, which has since eliminated this problem.
total rookie performance score: 1.5