SoCal lobster season

[jlyle]

Did anyone else go out opening day?

 

[Johnoly]

Did anyone else go out opening day?

Couple of big boys there my friend !!
What is this...2 decades(?) you have not missed opening day. ???

 

[jlyle]

Couple of big boys there my friend !!
What is this...2 decades(?) you have not missed opening day. ???

At least twenty+ years. Great fun...as you know.

 

[jlyle]

Couple of big boys there my friend !!
What is this...2 decades(?) you have not missed opening day. ???

I forgot to ask. How many years for you?

 

[Johnoly]

I forgot to ask. How many years for you?

This year was my 26th consecutive year of diving opening day of Florida lobster season & I've never missed an opener. That would be roughly 600 lobsters caught in the 2 day season historically..But there's ALOT of divers I know that are double that number. I'm still a newbie

 

[OCDiver]

I'm curios about how this years opener went for SoCal folks? I dove Corona Del Mar and it was the best opener I've ever seen. There were a lot of bugs, but not just that. There was the highest percentage of legals that I've ever seen. From Newport to Dana Point (and maybe more south?) much of the season last year was shut down due to the Huntington Beach oil spill. Trying to figure out if the accounts for a good season this year. If I hear that the season is normal everywhere else, I'll bet the closure provided a benefit this year.
Six divers, six limits.