Mini Season Checklist

[Jessica Anderson]

1. Gear service and check
2. Freezer bags + vacuum sealer (yes, I'm that confident)
3. Cooler + ice (+beverages )
4. Mark scouting spots on Navionics app to go back to
5. Buy extra loop for the 2fer holes




Missing anything?


It's gonna be a fun season. Let's get out there and get wet!

 

[RJP]

Missing anything?

Claws, for one thing!

 

[Water Boy76]

You forgot
Sled x2
Tequila
First Aid Kit
Pole Spear for Lionfish

Also: You will find the best spots behind a sled or looking at your bottom machine. Problem with using maps is everyone has the same one's, so those spots get hit hard. Probably will be OK in Mini Season though, still plenty out there early.

 

[Mouth Breather]

I've been seeing a lot of carcasses on the 1st and 2nd reefs in LBTS and Pompano, DB's getting a head start. Hope there are some left!

 

[DennisS]

Two lobster gauges, nothing like having a bagful of lobsters on a beach dive and realizing that somewhere between the last lobster and now you lost your gauge. Feelin lucky, will the marine patrol be on the beach?

 

[Ana]

I've been seeing a lot of carcasses on the 1st and 2nd reefs in LBTS and Pompano, DB's getting a head start. Hope there are some left!

Poachers don't quit, my husband went out freediving with my son last week and saw a bunch of heads off Pompano, fortunately the boat next to them appeared to be responsible for the massacre, a quick call to the marine patrol got things going, hopefully they got a good lesson.

i've been seeing plenty of bugs here and there, no many together but enough to make it worth it going out and give it a try.

 

[100days-a-year]

Thx for calling,sadly the FWC is understaffed.

 

[Wookie]

Claws, for one thing!

About the only way to eat a Florida lobster any more (not that I would want to, I'm happy to save them for the tourists) is to go get it yourself. All of the restaurants in Key Weird are serving their lobster dishes with picked meat from Maine and Canada. Why? Picked meat is running about $25 a lb or so. Whole, live spiny lobster closed last season at $13, but it was as high as $18 for a week or 2. It is expected to open at $15 next week, dip, then fluctuate as the market bears, but live Spiny lobster are headed to China.

As always, we export the best seafood and eat what's left over.

Me? I'm a happy guy. The Spinys just don't taste right to me, and so any lobster dish I order here is made from a North American lobster which is damn near perfect, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Humpinit]

You're missing quite a bit.
Aluminum tickle stick
fishing license with lobster stamp
net
deluxe lobster inn
ahhh this is my favorite time of year

 

[Water Boy76]

You northerners enjoy your claws. I enjoy chasing and eating tail