to school next month.

The Devonshire youngster hauled in a 13-pound lobster while line fishing off Coney Island dock in Hamilton Parish.

Since catching the nearly two-foot grandpa lobster on Friday, Omari admits he and his five-year-old sister Takara have been having nightmares.

He recalled how his sister ran down the hallway on Sunday screaming "the lobster is chasing me!''.

The Berkeley Institute student said his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Dill, dropped him and his grandfather off at Coney Island at about 9 p.m. on Friday.

Omari put some squid on his line and threw it overboard. Ten minutes later, something bit.

"I thought I had caught a rock it was so heavy,'' Omari said. "But all of a sudden the line started moving from side to side.'' He managed to pull in whatever was on his line quite a way when a three-foot antennae suddenly rose up out of the sea.

"I thought it was a giant octopus,'' Omari said. "My heart started pounding fast.'' By that time his parents had arrived and suggested he keep pulling it in. "We did not see what it was until it got right by the rocks,'' Omari said. "My daddy knew straight away what it was. I was scared it might do something to me. And my baby sister was so scared she went running for the car.'' Mr. Dill helped his son pull the lobster out of the water and called the Aquarium.

Omari estimated it had taken nearly half an hour to haul it in.

"It looked real mad and it just stared at me everywhere I went,'' he said.

Despite putting the lobster in their largest cooler, its antennae and legs stuck out.

"I wouldn't be surprised if it was 30 years old,'' Aquarium and Zoo curator Mr. Jack Ward said. "But age is very difficult to determine in invertebrates.'' He said the male lobster probably managed to grow so old because it was living inshore -- it was caught on the Grotto Bay side of the Coney Island dock.

"It was removed from fishing pressure,'' Mr. Ward said. "Traps have been banned inshore for many moons.'' Mr. Ward said the lobster, however, was not the largest caught in Bermuda waters.

"I've seen a 16-pound one caught in Harrington Sound, also at night and by kids with a hand line,'' he said.

But he added: "It is certainly rare to catch one that size.'' Mr. Ward said the lobster's carapace is eight and one-quarter inches and its body length from head to tail is 22 inches.

He added the lobster meat "would be nowhere near as tender as a smaller one''.

The Aquarium plans to release the lobster, but not in the same place it was found.

LOB-ZILLA -- Omari Dill, 12, holds up a 13-pound lobster he caught with a hand line off Coney Island dock on Friday night. Aquarium and Zoo curator Mr. Jack Ward, who measured the giant lobster, said it is nearly two feet long.