Florida Lobsters

[FootballFan]

or “bugs” as they are called.

Have you had them?


All of our time we have never eaten FL lobsters, just never worked out.

We got to the boat yesterday, went over some friends house. Conversation turned at some point to lobsters, we shared have never had them.

Our friends had bags of tales in the freezer, they set them out for us.

Wow, what meal. Grilled. They are smaller, we ate 2 apiece. Different flavor than Maine - or at least our opinion.

 

[Handsome Transom]

I've had those little guys in the keys years ago . Ss s kid my folks got them diving and snorkeling definetly a little different taste from Atlantic lobsters. They are a little more pungent probably the warm water. Funny wevdont call them Maine Lobster up here we also only eat plain ole king crabs hold the Alaskan.

 

[El Capitan]

Legal size I believe is 4 inch minimum tail length. It may have changed however.

Plentiful in the Keys.

 

[Capt. Rusty Higgins]

For years during the SR plant summer vacation week in July, my daughters and I would be snorkeling under the Seven Mile Bridge and collecting bugs aplenty during mini-season. Fun to sit around the fire cooking bugs with a group of other lobster hunting families, there for the same reason.
I kinda do prefer the Florida taste as it is more game tasting than the real lobsters of the NE. And since there are no claws, you're really talking tails here. Butterfly cut, shell down, on the grill....they will be done before you finished that first beer. They are different in size than NE lobster, so we pretty much ate our days legal catch each evening. When I eat I Maine/NE lobster, it's a crustacean orgy, with food fly'in like Belushi was in the room. Just one of those big-boys, and you're plugged, and a mess, hence the bib. Twp different seafood critters to me, one to be eaten right off the grill, the other requires sit-down dinning.
Just grateful to have the Florida Keys so close, to help raise young'ins in a healthy and beautiful environment.

R

 

[Handsome Transom]

For years during the SR plant summer vacation week in July, my daughters and I would be snorkeling under the Seven Mile Bridge and collecting bugs aplenty during mini-season. Fun to sit around the fire cooking bugs with a group of other lobster hunting families, there for the same reason.
I kinda do prefer the Florida taste as it is more game tasting than the real lobsters of the NE. And since there are no claws, you're really talking tails here. Butterfly cut, shell down, on the grill....they will be done before you finished that first beer. They are different in size than NE lobster, so we pretty much ate our days legal catch each evening. When I eat I Maine/NE lobster, it's a crustacean orgy, with food fly'in like Belushi was in the room. Just one of those big-boys, and you're plugged, and a mess, hence the bib. Twp different seafood critters to me, one to be eaten right off the grill, the other requires sit-down dinning.
Just grateful to have the Florida Keys so close, to help raise young'ins in a healthy and beautiful environment.

R

If you ever get the chance s Cape Breton beach party lobster boil is a heck of an adventure. When you get too messy a quick rinse in the ocean and back at it

 

[Mr Mac]

We love the wee beasties of the sea! Yeah, they are a touch different from their NE cousin's, but tasty none-the-less!

 

[ttmott]

For years during the SR plant summer vacation week in July, my daughters and I would be snorkeling under the Seven Mile Bridge and collecting bugs aplenty during mini-season. Fun to sit around the fire cooking bugs with a group of other lobster hunting families, there for the same reason.
I kinda do prefer the Florida taste as it is more game tasting than the real lobsters of the NE. And since there are no claws, you're really talking tails here. Butterfly cut, shell down, on the grill....they will be done before you finished that first beer. They are different in size than NE lobster, so we pretty much ate our days legal catch each evening. When I eat I Maine/NE lobster, it's a crustacean orgy, with food fly'in like Belushi was in the room. Just one of those big-boys, and you're plugged, and a mess, hence the bib. Twp different seafood critters to me, one to be eaten right off the grill, the other requires sit-down dinning.
Just grateful to have the Florida Keys so close, to help raise young'ins in a healthy and beautiful environment.

R

And the Capt knows this - big bull shark frequent under that bridge. I guess it was over 15 years ago I had a really big one shadow me and my bag of bugs under the old rail bridge; I had to give him my catch - ran out of air and had to come up..... All good fun - got my heart rate up! Then there is that place where Rusty and I live called Pelican Flats; about 20 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral. It's a deep dive but great structure and where the really big bugs are...… But the real fun is free diving for lobster in the Bahamas without nets or tickle sticks or spears; the little buggers are quick once you get them out of their holes. This picture is one that just about drowned me at Fish Cay in the Abaco...

 

[JVM225]

My nephews sent a picture with a couple of coolers full of them. Made me jealous for sure.