Mini lobster season 2013

We got a chance to experience our first Key's mini lobster season this year.  We stayed at a KP classmate of mine, and the first morning we ran aground for about 3 hours waiting for the tide to lift the boat off the flat.  We did get some lobsters later that afternoon, and then were promptly pulled over by FWC, getting cited for 2 emergency equipment violations.  Luckily, they were much cooler about 2 lobsters which were inadvertently caught undersize.  All in all a good experience, and some spearfishing produced a lion fish!  Good times on the boat, and on the way home, we dropped off Ryan with his good friend Joey to continue more of the same.