The season starts August 6th every year and this year JC Schwalback, a salesman from MarineMax Fort Myers led 11 boats on the MarineMax Florida Keys Getaway to the Faro Blanco Resort & Yacht Club for a 7-day lobster fishing trip. MarineMax Getaways in the Florida Keys usually involves a lot of time spent on the beautiful blue water.
Lobstering is a CHALLENGING and fun family activity, requiring only some snorkel gear, a good breath hold, a stick and net, a boat and a lot of energy! Lobsters are found in natural ledges and holes in the Gulf of Mexico and on hard bottom areas and reefs on the Atlantic side of the islands. The most abundant lobster in Florida waters is the Spiny Lobster, named this because they lack the front claws of a Maine lobster. The Spiny Lobster may lack claws for defense but it makes up for it in speed – in a blink of the eye a Spiny Lobster can travel at great speeds backwards to avoid predators making them difficult to catch once they are in motion.
“Dealing with some high winds and afternoon summer storms, the group was still able to catch a few lobster” stated JC Schwalback. Barbara Hildebrant, a MarineMax client, caught a pretty big one on her Boston Whaler 345 Conquest, appropriately named “E FISHN SEA”