Scalloping St. Joe 2015
 

Took a late trip yesterday. Spent about 3/ hours in the water with wife and kids.. Got about 7 gallons... More than I wanted to clean...they are still small but nice amount of meat in them...

Ahhh, memories. St Joe is a wonderful place. The eating ain't bad either.

Hey Connor you visiting this summer?

I can't speak for Connor, but we'll be back at SGI the first week of August. We'll probably head over to St Joe Bay for at least one day of scalloping. Did you catch yours in the grass, or in the sand?
Dave

Hi Dave,
Yes in the grass flats.. The larger ones are in deeper waters in Sandy holes.
. Usually in August or September. We get the larger ones in the flats as well.. The kids and wife don't cars for the deeper water and super long" shag" grass.. As I call it around the fire tower on west end of bay...if you get into razor clams and urchins move. As I have never had much luck around them....
We launch a presnell's camp ground 10.00 for lauch 5.00 for extra vehicles... Great little hole in the Wall place. Super nice people and scallop grounds are about a mile away between black island and 98/-30a.... Keep in touch will try to get up with ya.

We had about a full quart of meat. 1.5lbs weight....took my wife and I about 2 .5 hours to clean.. Definitely use a 1gal shop vac...

Yeah, looks like a nice haul. We still clean them the old fashioned way. I'd rather spend the time than listen to the noise of the shop vac. I'll give shout when the time gets closer.
Dave

How do you use a "shop vac" to clean scallops?

Once you spoon them open, the shop vac sucks the chum skum out of them..

When you go to dump the residue out of the vac you dump into a
zip loc for freezing into a chum block... ;)

Very labor intensive for the amount of product you produce !
Bugs are a whole lot easier to catch and clean ...:)

NoBones was based at Crystal River this past week...
Daughter and son-in law borrowed her for the trip to
chase the floaters. :cool:

I'll bet that shop vac smells ripe a few days after that operation!!