“I looked down a lobster hole and saw a tentacle,” he said. “I was really surprised, it was the first time I’d come across one.”
Pictured: “Some people take them home to eat, but I thought it best to let it go,” said Jay.
Jay caught the moment on camera whilst filming for his YouTube channel, which has around 100,000 subscribers.
“It was massive, I think it was about 7 to 8 Ibs,” he said of the octopus.
Curled octopus have been making a comeback in Guernsey waters after disappearing for roughly half a century.
“Older fishermen say that we used to have loads of octopus about 50 years ago,” said Jay, “but there was a massive low tide once, coupled with a big freeze in temperature and all the octopus disappeared.”
You can watch the moment he caught it HERE.