The 2015 spiny lobster season opens with the two-day recreational sport season July 29 and 30, followed by the regular commercial and recreational lobster season, which starts Aug. 6 and runs through March 31.
In addition, this year, divers have an incentive to remove some invasive lionfish while they’re in the water. Divers can take one extra spiny lobster each day during the two-day sport season if they also harvest 10 or more lionfish first, on the same day.
No one wants a small lobster for dinner. Make sure you check the size. Measuring devices are required, and lobsters must be measured while they are in the water. If the carapace length is not larger than 3 inches, it must be left in the water (see image on how to measure spiny lobster).
To protect the next generation and your future chances to have lobster for dinner, harvest of egg-bearing females is prohibited. Lobsters have hundreds of thousands of eggs that are easily visible and attached under the tail. While most lobsters have completed reproduction by the start of the fishing season, finding lobsters with eggs is common in July and August.
Bring a cooler big enough to hold the entire lobster. Spiny lobsters must remain in whole condition until they are brought to shore. Also, do not take spiny lobster with any device that might puncture, penetrate or crush its shell.
Stick to the bag and possession limits so there will be enough lobsters for all your friends and family. During the two-day spiny lobster sport season, recreational divers and snorkelers can take up to six lobsters per person daily in Monroe County and Biscayne National Park waters or seven lobsters if they take at least 10 lionfish first that same day.
In other Florida waters, they can take 12 lobsters per person day or 13 if they first take at least 10 lionfish on that same day. You may possess no more than the daily bag limit of lobsters when you are on the water. When you are off the water, you may possess no more than the daily bag limit on the first day of the sport season and no more than double the daily bag limit on the second day.
Then, melt the butter!
IDK, but I think Bama might lose 2 games this year...and I don't even see USC making the POs.
Posted by: CaneRock | July 29, 2015 at 10:09 AM
Right now OSU has 14, yes 14 4-Star players committed in the 2016 class. In addition they had 2 5-Star players committed, one from South Florida in Bosa. They have two 4-Star players from IMG Academy here in Florida. Their 2015 class also included 14 4-Star players. Their 2014 class included 15 4-Star players and 1 5-Star player. Sadly OSU will probably build a dynasty before Golden wins the ACC here at Miami.
Posted by: GoldenHomer | July 29, 2015 at 10:14 AM
CR, I agree..but with Saban you never know. I think OSU has a shot a repeating...maybe VT can knock them off again, would love that.
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 10:18 AM
Urban Liar has always been a good recruiter, and winning a title helps...if we win more we will pick up more talent.
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 10:39 AM
Posted by: GoldenHomer | July 29, 2015 at 10:04 AM
Still with the obsession. I guess I have a stalker now. You do realize you're really odd, don't you?
Posted by: Lur-ker | July 29, 2015 at 10:43 AM
OSU has been recruiting like that for years. That's why their 3rd stringer is Cardelle Jones and ours was Gary Crow until Williams healed. When you have all the money in the world and can recruit guns blazing you get that result. When you don't, you get a version of where we've been.
Don't get me wrong, should have won more last year. But we were never a contender talent wise from 1-85 (or in our case 1-60).
For those saying 10 wins and a bowl win or else, I can't for the life of me understand how you can't see how far away from teams like OSU we still are.
I've said 10 wins here multiple times. I hope it happens. But 8-9 with the team playing well from start to finish and a bowl win is good for me, for this year. No coach should or will get fired if that happens.
Posted by: Go Canes | July 29, 2015 at 11:07 AM
ACC Championship or Bust
Posted by: Sinistercane | July 29, 2015 at 11:21 AM
I'm Riding my 12% Bus but No Seat Belts
I Expect the Best but Fear the Worst with
STRONG Anticipation for a Brighter Day!!
12% No Seat Belts
Posted by: RCCF | July 28, 2015 at 10:59 PM
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I'm going to Teen Wolf it and be standing on top of the bus, that way I can abandon ship safely and what not!!!
Posted by: thirstybuzzardcane | July 29, 2015 at 11:55 AM
Im sticking to the 9-8% limo
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 12:50 PM
Choc Gray @Godschild__choc 23h23 hours ago
Ain't no college coach I rather play for !! This the man who believes in me and all my brothers.. @GoldenAl 💯💯
Posted by: Ohio_Cane | July 29, 2015 at 01:08 PM
I am driving the Coastal division, Bowl Winning, 10-11% Drop Top Ford Mustang Orange and Green with White Seats with a Canes Cheerleader, Canes Sensation, Hooters, Twin Peaks, and Tilted Kilt Ladies riding with me anybody wanna roll with us. We departing from Campus and ready to ride out. Go Canes!
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | July 29, 2015 at 01:16 PM
Miami has been recruiting like that for years. Soup RAVES about Gray Crow, it's not like we haven't had kids they just don't pan or play . So are supposed to accept being mediocre while Al builds Miami to last for years and not winning and falling off ? Took Butch what 4 years to get to the top and leave ? And he was actually on sanctions with less players. But I guess Al gets a pass and this is what.. year 2 ? Okay
Posted by: laquinton | July 29, 2015 at 01:20 PM
I'm in with you TS.
https://paxtonauto.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/01-tjin-edition-mustang-convertible1.jpg
Posted by: Lur-ker | July 29, 2015 at 01:42 PM
Cheerleader, Canes Sensation, Hooters, Twin Peaks, and Tilted Kilt Ladies riding with me anybody wanna roll with us. We departing from Campus and ready to ride out. Go Canes!
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | July 29, 2015 at 01:16 PM
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yes, yes, yes,yes, and yes!!
#Dale
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 01:45 PM
I love the preseason in sports when everyone is undefeated and optimistic.
Half the teams will lose on week 1 and reality will be settling in.
We were 6-7 last year and lost many key players. Vegas thinks very little of our prospects.
Yet here, there is lots of talk of 10+ wins and Coastal and ACC championships. I hope I'm just a jaundiced old fart who can't see the upcoming abrupt turn around. Still, I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: mountain cane | July 29, 2015 at 01:50 PM
Im with you Mountain Cane, I want it so bad...just have no faith Golden and his staff can make it happen. But I would love to come here and eat crow
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 01:57 PM
As would I
Posted by: laquinton | July 29, 2015 at 02:04 PM
UMike I will gladly eat multiple helpings of crow
Posted by: mountain cane | July 29, 2015 at 02:11 PM
Lur-ker and 30Cinco U 2 are rolling with Us. Go Canes!
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | July 29, 2015 at 02:12 PM
Looking at our schedule, FSU is the only team that has out recruited us....
2012 - Only FSU had higher class
2013 - FSU, Clemson & Neb had higher ranked clases
2014 - Only FSU had higher class
2015 - FSU, Clemson & VT
So it would appear we have more overall talent than everyone on our schedule but FSU and about the same as Clemson.
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 02:16 PM
Took Butch what 4 years to get to the top and leave ? And he was actually on sanctions with less players.
Posted by: laquinton | July 29, 2015 at 01:20 PM
I wonder what you'd have said if this blog had been around after Butch's 3rd year when he was under .500 and lost 47-0 to FSU. And it took Butch six years to win more than nine games btw, not four.
Posted by: Go Canes | July 29, 2015 at 02:21 PM
Posted by: Go Canes | July 29, 2015 at 02:21 PM
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Guarantee this is where the discussion turns to "real" sanctions vs "the cloud".
People acknowledge it, yes diminish the impact of it because they cant quantify the damage it caused.
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 02:30 PM
Laquinton Butch didn't get us to the top until his 6th season. Come on Man. Smdh.
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | July 29, 2015 at 02:33 PM
Butch also won 8 or more games 5 out of his 6 years here..he also won every bowl game he coached at Miami. And he actually had sanctions and larger scholarship loses. I am not trying to compare the two, or give Butch a vote...Im sure I would have been calling for his head after his 3rd year also...but to me Golden is not that coach, he will not rise us up and out of the darkness and into a consistent top 10-15 program. IMO
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 02:34 PM
30...its true. There is a difference between the two. They both had an impact, but Butches had to be worse to deal with IMO.
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 02:35 PM
Butch took over the program in the 1995 Season. So 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999, it wasn't until 2000 where we finished 11-1 Big East Champions, Sugar Bowl, Champs, State Champions, and ranked #2.
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | July 29, 2015 at 02:35 PM
The greatest coach in the history of everything won 3 more games than both Golden and Randy after 4 years. Lets not act like it was championship city.
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 02:35 PM
Golden has done a lot of good of the field...a lot...but has done absolutely nothing on the field that would allow me to have any faith in him.
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 02:36 PM
Do you guys not like Butch Davis...or do you just like to downsize him to make Golden not look as bad?
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 02:37 PM
Butch won 2 bowl games in his first 4 seasons...he had 1 bad season (97), the other years he won 8-9 games. Golden broke the 8 win mark once and hasnt won a bowl.
Again..Im NOT trying to compare them, I just dont get why people try to minimize is accomplishments.
Posted by: UMike | July 29, 2015 at 02:41 PM
Why would you or anyone feel someone is minimizing anything? They are facts. Butch won 3 more games that both Golden and Randy after year 4. The greatest coach of all time won 3 more games that the "worst" coaches of all time for some.
Things changed with Butch after people had no hope it would. Maybe they will change for Golden, maybe it wont.
LETS FIND OUT!
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 02:57 PM
ACC Championship or Bust
Posted by: Sinistercane | July 29, 2015 at 02:59 PM
I got mad love for Butch just giving perspective. Some Canes fans need to at least know their history if they are going to make a bunch of assumptions. I don't hate Al or Love Al but he is the Head Coach of the team I love thus gets my support until he is no longer the head coach. I did the same with Howard, Jimmy, Dennis, Butch, Larry, Randy as well.
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | July 29, 2015 at 03:11 PM
Past is the Past, it's all about this year and if Golden turns it around I'll be the first to eat a dumpster Full of CROW
Posted by: Sinistercane | July 29, 2015 at 03:15 PM
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 02:57 PM
Exactly. It has NOTHING to do with minimizing what he did.
Let's not forget Butch took over a team that had won the National Championship just a couple of years earlier. Within three seasons he was under .500. The same people comparing would have been calling for his head when things were darkest.
He lost 47-0 to FSU.
Imagine this crowd if that happened today.
Ouch.
Think I'll let things play out before making such grandiose assertions about what any coach is capable of when finally on even ground.
Posted by: Go Canes | July 29, 2015 at 03:20 PM
Lol Terrence you are a funny guy. I'm gonna make sure I fact check everything before I post. It's a new football year. I'll be opened minded for Mr Golden. We shall see, hope he shocks the world.
Posted by: laquinton | July 29, 2015 at 03:22 PM
Golden out recruited EVERYBODY in the Coastal during the "cloud"... how did it stop him from winning it???
What did Butch do when he built his team vs what did Golden do when he built his team (2014)???
Posted by: WWIN | July 29, 2015 at 03:32 PM
@bartonsimmons: Six committed players in the initial Top100 for 2018. Three of them are committed to #TheU: http://t.co/Pl7SzsbfKZ
Posted by: Go Canes | July 29, 2015 at 03:39 PM
Posted by: WWIN | July 29, 2015 at 03:32 PM
He won 5, 8 or 9 games, what's your point?
He didn't win 11 games, the only time in his entire coaching career he won double digit games in a season, his sixth year.
Posted by: Go Canes | July 29, 2015 at 04:03 PM
^^^^^^^
Yeah when his team was built!
Golden had a team built last year and went 6-7 wit em!
We were actually doing better during the "cloud"... Bring the "cloud" back please lol!!!
Posted by: WWIN | July 29, 2015 at 04:26 PM
Look... I hope Golden surprises everyone this year but let's not act like all the facts are not on the wall tho! He's been doing the same for 10yrs
Posted by: WWIN | July 29, 2015 at 04:29 PM
Tell us again why Butch didnt win the Coastal at UNC, his most recent stop? Basketball school huh? lol
#cutcliff
#amiright
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 04:36 PM
^^^^^^
EVERYBODY knows what Butch was building at UNC!!! You know what stopped it
And yo coach helped Cutcliff do it lol
Posted by: WWIN | July 29, 2015 at 04:51 PM
LMAO!!
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 04:57 PM
28-22, AND team was cheating.
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 04:58 PM
You comparing what a coach did at a basketball school to what a coach at a football school is doing???
Ask yourself this question... who's turning UM into a basketball school??? LMAO
#SayAnythingtomakeGoldenLookGood
Posted by: WWIN | July 29, 2015 at 05:19 PM
Cutcliff laughs at your excuse generator, me too, lol
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 05:31 PM
Doctor called, said my son has to have surgery, bankart repair. Said He has anterior & interior instability, basically they gotta go in there and tighten up His labrum...followed by 3-6 months rehab.
Posted by: CaneRock | July 29, 2015 at 05:31 PM
AG must go. It will be more of the same. Team had more talent than most other schools and finished 6-7. What would TCU coach do with Miami?
Anyways, I'll be in Miami mid Aug. Can I catch any Cane practices?
Posted by: USAFCane | July 29, 2015 at 05:35 PM
Car- Wish your son good luck and a speedy recovery.
Posted by: 30CINCO | July 29, 2015 at 05:38 PM