paulthenurse
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Went out yesterday with some of the usual suspects to the usual spot. Some decided to stay home because of famobs. That freed up space on board for my Dad to come along for the day.
Scott and Sarah splashed first and after a 44 minute dive returned with a full catch bag. They said that the visability was pretty crummy and Alice and I confirmed that when we found the bottom by touch. "Seriously? This is the vis?" We swam around a bit and it never improved, you litterally couldn't see the bottom if your mask was more than a foot out of the dirt, we were swiming around in all the muck that Scott and Sarah stirred up, so we decided to move a bit. Pulled anchor and moved a couple hundred yards up into the minimal current and while the vis was better it still stunk. We usually like to split up to the outer limits of visibility while hunting to cover more ground but that was maybe 4 feet. Still, we both managed to fill a catch bag. I shot mine to the top, Alice hates farting around with lift bags so she muscled hers up.
Both girls were done after one. I wasn't cold at all, my computer read mid 50* at 65 feet so after a reasonable interval Scott and I went back down. Between us we filled another bag. Total for the day was just about 2 gallons of shucked scallops and a half a dozen bugs between the four of us. My bag looked bigger than Scotts bacause I always keep the red roe.
My Dad was one happy old man last night. Not only did he get to sit down to a scallop and lobster dinner that someone else caught and cooked but Alice took him shopping for a birthday preent for my Mom then stopped and bought him ice cream on the way home. It don't take too much to make you happy as a clam at 85.
If you haven't tried the roe you have to give it a go. It tastes like scallop (maybe less intense and less salty) and with a slightly different texture, more smoother and sausage-like. Cook them exactly the same as you do the scallop meats.
Scott and Sarah splashed first and after a 44 minute dive returned with a full catch bag. They said that the visability was pretty crummy and Alice and I confirmed that when we found the bottom by touch. "Seriously? This is the vis?" We swam around a bit and it never improved, you litterally couldn't see the bottom if your mask was more than a foot out of the dirt, we were swiming around in all the muck that Scott and Sarah stirred up, so we decided to move a bit. Pulled anchor and moved a couple hundred yards up into the minimal current and while the vis was better it still stunk. We usually like to split up to the outer limits of visibility while hunting to cover more ground but that was maybe 4 feet. Still, we both managed to fill a catch bag. I shot mine to the top, Alice hates farting around with lift bags so she muscled hers up.
Both girls were done after one. I wasn't cold at all, my computer read mid 50* at 65 feet so after a reasonable interval Scott and I went back down. Between us we filled another bag. Total for the day was just about 2 gallons of shucked scallops and a half a dozen bugs between the four of us. My bag looked bigger than Scotts bacause I always keep the red roe.
My Dad was one happy old man last night. Not only did he get to sit down to a scallop and lobster dinner that someone else caught and cooked but Alice took him shopping for a birthday preent for my Mom then stopped and bought him ice cream on the way home. It don't take too much to make you happy as a clam at 85.
If you haven't tried the roe you have to give it a go. It tastes like scallop (maybe less intense and less salty) and with a slightly different texture, more smoother and sausage-like. Cook them exactly the same as you do the scallop meats.
