Having a lobster for lunch in a fine dining restaurant could spell disaster on your pocket. After all, lobsters cost a lot. In fact, it is considered as the most expensive Crustacean delicacy on our lunch or dinner table.

What makes lobsters too expensive? Is it because of the big servings as lobsters are known to be weighing five kilos at an average? Well, perhaps. A typical layman would probably think that the price of lobsters is too stiff because catching one is difficult too — considering the pain it may inflict on us the moment its sharp claws gets too much closer to our hands for comfort.

Lobsters, considered as valued food stuff at that, are of course sumptuous when served on our buffet table, which is probably one of the reasons why it has gone way far from being an affordable food delicacy and too expensive for a typical worker to have as lunch.

But what if we get to serve ourselves with a lobster that we ourselves caught? Wouldn?t it be cheaper? But of course it would, but how do we catch lobsters, if ever we are eager to haul one from the surface of the water.

Catching a lobster isn?t really as difficult as many would imagine it to be. In fact, catching lobsters may somehow be similar to catching crabs. Lobster fishery folks in the tropical regions around the globe have the luxury of catching lobsters with the use of simple gears similar but much bigger than the crab pot and crab traps.

On top of these fishing gears made of welded wires shaped in box form, there are also recent inventions like the stunner, which instantly makes the lobster unconscious (or shall we say dead) the moment it is used on the valued Crustaceans. By the way, stunners or crusta-stun, an invention of an American lawyer from the University of Bristol, cost something like $ 2,000, which makes the process of lobster preying far more expensive than buying one for your lunch.

There are also tips and techniques as to how to catch a lobster using the bare hands (although many people into lobster fishing would hardly recommended such methodology as lobsters have very sharp shell claws which may inflict pain and wound to those who may dare catch them using their very hand).

Of the long list of way to catch lobsters, the most common among small-time lobster fishing people in tropical countries is the use boxed gear made of welded wire as their tool in catching lobsters. These devices, it was learned are far cheaper (as compared to the crusta-stun) and the most commonly used in the booming industry of lobster fishery.

Baits, which are normally fish parts or chicken necks, are tied at the bottom of the boxed gear, with collapsible sides which fall flat on the floor when submerged under the water. Then the gear is dropped in a marked portion of the waters or tied with a buoy so that lobster catchers can easily locate them when they get back for it. The moment a lobster closes in and gets into the center of the gear, the cord, which is tied at the top of the four collapsible sides of the device, is pulled up allowing the sides to form and re-assemble into a box, trapping the lobster inside. Then the gear is brought up from the deep.

What?s next? Take your box (of course, with the lobster in it) in your kitchen and do the next best thing on it — cook or fry, it's your call.