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Ireland Spearing, 2011

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Here's how I ate it, very simply. One fillet of trigger and three scallops fried in olive oil. Sprinkled withsalt and lots of white pepper as soon as it hits the pan then turned immediatly to season the other sides. Turned once more after a bit then served with some potato salad, cucumber and olive and tomato salad.
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I'm no great chef or food photographer but i've just finished this and it was delicious.
 
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Friday myself and the missus went away to a luxury 5* hotel and spa for our anniversary... I succumbed to a treatment on the condition we go diving the following morning ;)

So we poped out for scallops, a little late also at 11.30 and out for 14:00 just up a little from you Dave! but with the chop i'm not surprised I missed your float. I took my gun for triggers but the missus got cold and we didn't even go looking.

When I got there I realised I brought my cressi fins which are small so no socks for me, but it wasnt too bad at 12' but my new mask was a disaster letting in water on every dive... i pulled it really tight and it still let in the water... when I got out I felt tingling all over my face and thought I got stung bad...when I rubbed it it got worse... but after an hour it improved and I think maybe the mask was too tight at the end of the dive....

Vis from the car looked mank... and there was chop and I was having second thoughts. There was a layer of suspended particles floating on the surface about 2m deep but beneath that the vis opened up nicely to 5-6m but about 100-150m from the shore the water was crystal clear.

Similiar to Dave close to shore (where Clare was picking them in 3m of water last year) was blank save the odd one or tiny one and you had to go deep to find them.

When we arrived we saw 2 small inshore boats pottering around and when we were leaving there was a massive dredger in the middle of the channel... a lot of activity!

Great day out!

And as its my son's birthday today (3!) we are having people around to have some mackeral salad, cod goujons and crab and scallop paella (Have more crabs in freezer!)

Think we got about 25 with the smallest 5 going back. Clare got 1 :)

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Great going Sunfish and Bobdonny, its great to see that there are still some good size fish around as well. I haven't managed to find a spot for scallops yet despite seeing numerous empty scallop shells littering the entire coastline that I swim in. Hopefully I'll get out and catch something during the week though the forecast is not looking too good.
 
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Sweet Jesus lads, are yous brave enough or mad enough to go out in weather like that ... weather in Dublin is completely crap . Question will be are scallops migrating ? if we took few scallops last winter from a spot , will it takes them long to migrate to a spot ? #
Zilviss welcome DB. there is few of us from Lithuania who spearfishing in Ireland. drop me PM and we can go out some day ... if weather ever gona change ............
 
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Danas, where the lads dived is very sheltered and seldom cant be dived. I'm not sure anyone will easily give up a scallop spot to be honest. The spot we dive is shared by around 5/6 of us which is already too many as it's a small area. Few spots in Galway hold scallops which is probably closer to you.
As far as I know they dont migrate but they go deeper during summer from what I've seen.
Hope this helps.
 
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Thanks for sharing .... I understand , this days most of us been hit by economical changes and is not easy to give away a feeding spots .... :DDDD (only meeeeessing)
how then scallops appears in a spots ? by spanning ? last time where we dived it was shallow from 2-6m. we took good few of them early in a winter . when come back in a late spring , scallops been there again , but not that many. I thought they do migrate as they can swim and move from place to place on a water temperature changes ?
 
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danas said:
Thanks for sharing .... I understand , this days most of us been hit by economical changes and is not easy to give away a feeding spots .... :DDDD (only meeeeessing)
how then scallops appears in a spots ? by spanning ? last time where we dived it was shallow from 2-6m. we took good few of them early in a winter . when come back in a late spring , scallops been there again , but not that many. I thought they do migrate as they can swim and move from place to place on a water temperature changes ?
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I think the eggs and younger stages of scallops drift a bit in the water before they settle on the bottom. This means that when an area is cleared it will be a few years before it can recover.
If you can find an area where the scallop dredging boats throw away their undersized shells as they come back to harbour you could be very lucky.
 
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I was out at a sheltered spot near Cork early Saturday morning which usually holds a good number of decent size Pollack, but it seems they have left leaving only small stuff. I take it this is quite usual? when do they start migrating back?

Also are Mullet here year round?
 
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Chealy. Best time for pollock is sept so I'm surprised there gone already. Was out locally last weekend without the gun and plenty of mullet around.
Danas the scallops take 4/5 years to grow which is why we take it easy on them and move around to different spots to give them a chance. It's all about conservation!
Dave is right. Watch the dredgers where they land. I'm sure that's y the spot I dive has so many scallops. It's a small pier where small boats land. Could be the reason........;-)
 
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Chealy. Best time for pollock is sept so I'm surprised there gone already. Was out locally last weekend without the gun and plenty of mullet around.
Danas the scallops take 4/5 years to grow which is why we take it easy on them and move around to different spots to give them a chance. It's all about conservation!
Dave is right. Watch the dredgers where they land. I'm sure that's y the spot I dive has so many scallops. It's a small pier where small boats land. Could be the reason........;-)
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I doubt any scallops have been offloaded there in years tbh... You wouldnt fit a proper scallop dredger in there... I'd say its only used for small potting outfits for gear storage etc...

In fact... surely you must land a fisheries at a registered port like castletownbere? In fact could you imagine a truck going up that road ;)

Anyway... Danas or anyone looking into scallops... there is plenty of info on the web loads of pdf's and journals / papers just google for them. But there is no substitute for local knowledge. Go for a wlk around an area and chat to the locals.

I was told by a man that when he was young himself and his dad would take a small punt out to some islands in winter to catch big cod and they used to always catch a few scallops aswell! So in I poped to explore ;)
 
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danas said:
Thanks for sharing .... I understand , this days most of us been hit by economical changes and is not easy to give away a feeding spots .... :DDDD (only meeeeessing)
how then scallops appears in a spots ? by spanning ? last time where we dived it was shallow from 2-6m. we took good few of them early in a winter . when come back in a late spring , scallops been there again , but not that many. I thought they do migrate as they can swim and move from place to place on a water temperature changes ?
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Found one doc... it show scallops do not really move... certainly no more than a few metres their entire life!
http://cmrc.ucc.ie/publications/reports/Overview.pdf

I was talking to my wife and we are looking at getting some good underwater paint to mark the large scallops in an area as breeders. Not sure how toxic it will be, I'll have to talk to a marine biologist buddy.
I mean the bigger the scallops the more they will spawn but if I paint and leave a HUGE scallop in 3m of water that makes it very visible, and I wonder if other people will just see it and take it.... not sure...
 
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