Well looking good for this weekend and hoping for the best... 33% chance of rain for Saturday so the plans have began... we'll see if we can get an early start and beat the crowd out there. I think that we'll start in a little deeper water since we have had several days of bad weather. Here I am talking like a professional scalloper... when I only hit it like a weekend warrior. Anyway we're going to see if we can limit out once again. Hell, maybe this time I'll get some pictures of proof. I guess that I don't get pictures because most of the time I have got most of them cleaned before everyone gets in the boat. WAIT! maybe that is why everyone wants to go with me... I do most of the cleaning. 🙂
Well, I think that we have made the last scallop trip of the year. We started out doing what the wife wanted and that was shallow water 3-4'. They were thin there with having to look really hard for what we got. After that dive The Bossman stepped in and told everyone that we was going to go in deep. We went out to around 6-6.5' and found a spot that I thought looked good and dropped anchor. I dove into the water to check things out before everyone else got in and before they threw me my bag I was holding 3 scallops. It was this stop that we claimed most of our haul. Everyone was in the water for about 2 hours this dive and not only gathered lots of scallops but a plenty of sun as well. We pulled anchor and went to another spot and in around 7' and in this location I found a reef that was 4' wide and 50' long and man I should have had a spear gun there was several grunts (good size) and on grouper that weighted 5+ Lbs. I looked around and I was the only one diving everyone else was on the boat eating and drinking. I told them to get in that there was a plenty of scallops here also. I guess that they had gotten enough diving for the day and the sun was starting to get the best of them. I finished filling my bag and climbed aboard and topped off the haul. We started to clean and the brother in-law started helping me clean. I was cleaning about 5 to 1 faster than Kevin but at least I have help this time. You would have thought that it was opening weekend with all of the boats that was out there. I really should have taking pictures of the drive back in. With the fishing tournament that was going on and everyone else coming in at the same time made it crowded. Everyone had a great time and we had around 8 gallons of uncleaned scallops and almost a half gallon of cleaned meat.
