St. Jean Orridge landed a lobster of legendary proportions on Saturday during the annual Makin? Waves Lobster Tournament.

The lobster, the largest caught in the tournament?s seven-year history, weighed exactly ten pounds.

Tournament organiser Stuart Joblin, who owns the Makin? Waves store and is also an avid lobster fisherman, said he has seen larger lobsters over the years ? but that the trick was to find one on tournament day.

Any lobster over eight pounds can be considered exceptional, he reckoned, while a lobster of ten pounds or more is the stuff of legend. By the time lobsters reach 15 pounds, he added, they are approaching mythological proportions.

Mr. Orridge caught his legendary crustacean with a noose somewhere off Dockyard in the boat .

Not only was he the first to catch a ten pound lobster during the tournament, he is also the first to have won the ?Big Bug? award for the largest lobster twice. Mr. Orridge also won several years ago for an 8.5 lb lobster.

Some 100 people were registered in the tournament, though only 45 weighed in at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club on Saturday.

Mr. Joblin said: ?I think there were more that caught lobsters but they took one look at Mr. Orridge?s and figured ?oh well, I?m not winning anyway?,? he said.

The tournament began at sunrise and participants weighed in at 5 p.m. Next year a portion of the registration fees will be matched by Makin? Waves with the total donated to charity.