...so sad to see those creatures on shore... It s like people drawn on the bottom of the sea ....
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Ireland Spearing, 2011
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Yeas agreed basilias, Regan no one had been tampereing with it so far bu tthe crowds were arriving as I was going. I was tempted to take some baleen as its going to be taken anyway but it was all intact so I figured if I was the one to start it well you know so I left well enough alone.
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Great thanks.... another reminder that a month has gone by in this dry spell (metaphorically speaking).
:duh
I have baleen over my fire place. Really tough stuff and looks cool.
Anyways. Scalloping is on for sat morning and about time too!!! Here's a pic of my fireplace, a spider shell to the left and baleen to the right. Is it too early for decorations?????
Anyways. Scalloping is on for sat morning and about time too!!! Here's a pic of my fireplace, a spider shell to the left and baleen to the right. Is it too early for decorations?????
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Yeaaa scallops !!!! - in 2020 , if weather not changing .....
an Idea - write a letter to Santa , from all Irish water enthusiasts - ask for one little present - no wind and rain for a week ... ( for each enthusiast ) i think is fair :thankyou - we not asking for much only a GOOD WEATHER !!!! leave everything a side Santa , care more about bloody IRISH WEATHER .
an Idea - write a letter to Santa , from all Irish water enthusiasts - ask for one little present - no wind and rain for a week ... ( for each enthusiast ) i think is fair :thankyou - we not asking for much only a GOOD WEATHER !!!! leave everything a side Santa , care more about bloody IRISH WEATHER .
Going back to the shark video: I snorkelled with Oceanic White Tip Sharks at St Johns Reef in The Red Sea a few years ago. It was really cool until one raced vertically at me from below only to swerve off at the very last second.
That freaked me out and needless to say - I got out of the water immediately. Two weeks later a female snorkeller was killed by one at the exact same spot!
Unsurprisingly: I won't be doing that again.
That freaked me out and needless to say - I got out of the water immediately. Two weeks later a female snorkeller was killed by one at the exact same spot!
Unsurprisingly: I won't be doing that again.
Finally!!! Something to report besides bad weather!!!
Saturday morning started late on Friday night with rushing home from work, 3 hours training and then late night packing and checking dive gear that had me hitting the sack at 12:30am. Got up a little after 5am and reckon I had about 3ish good hours sleep. Dumped all the gear out on my foot path and waited for baldyfish to pick me up.
He was five minutes late
and we were on the road at about 6.10 we had a stop off in Bantry for some breakfast then off to the dive site. We got there just after 8am and started to set up the boat, engine and our gear. The temp peaked at -3.5 on the way there and was around the freezing mark. We were off for about 8.30. Sunrise was 8.10 and we were well underway to our first spot by the time the sun came over the hills and warmed us up. It was a great feeling to have the plan coming together and things were looking good for the day! It was my first time with the engine on the 3m SIB and it was running sweet… albeit a little slow at about 3knotts. Yet still way faster and more relaxing than swimming rofl
Our plan was to drive south from our base in the morning with the tide and as the tide sent slack we would come back to base, have some hot food then go north to check some other marks. Of course we were aiming to grab some scallops but this was an exploratory session mainly so the plan was to cover lots of ground and only take the odd scallop until we hit a motherload.
Without a fishfinder we needed to access ground the old fashioned way… throw in the deckhand and scope it out… so off went Baldy on the drops. Our first mark (and the furthest away) was already inhabited by 4 seals with pups so we kept a safe distance and baldy took a few dives. But there was nothing there, so we made our way back to base slowly taking drops until we hit scallops. We were spotting them few and far between until Baldy started hitting quite a few in about 8m and the anchor went over. We dived there for a little bit then came back in the boat a head in a bit more towards base, and started hitting a few more, but as we found before they were all in deeper than 7m. I was wearing my extra 3mm vest (giving me 11mm across the chest and core ) and was trying to get used to the restriction on my breathing… my mask was leaking (luckily I had my spare in the boat) and my legs were getting very painful cramps probably due to training from the night before. And I should say that we’ve barely dived over the last 4 months so there was a noticeable lack of dive fitness.
Whilst on this ground we got a visit from a 27ft fishing boat with 2 fishermen from the boglands. It was hard to understand them even for Baldy. They thoroughly scoped out our little boat coming to within a meter off it and running circles around it (coming between myself and my boat! Baldy was sitting on a tube protecting his catch
) and they even were driving over our anchor line / rode. He checked out our catch, wanted to know how many of us were in the water, then had the cheek to ask if we had enough to give him a feed!!! Then the fecker took off but came back later but we ducked in behind some islands. Nervous experience with one of them towering over our punt… I felt like sea Sheppard vs the nishan maru!
Next we decided to cover some well known ground with a drift so we set up a 20m line with float from the boat and drifted. We dove straight down from the boat and came up near the float, there was a fast rip. My legs gave up here and I got in the boat and ditched the fins.
When we were both in the boat we headed for base and for some reason, we got our wrong bearings and overshot or base and came in slightly north. Baldy wanted one last check to scope the ground. He was picking up the odd one here and there and then started to wave frantically. He had hit a motherload. When I asked about the depth and he said about 3 / 4m I jumped in without fins and heaved anchor. I did see a few in there but we were both exhausted and cold and my legs had given up completely. I knew I could dive for scallops without fins, but I didn’t really consider swimming back to the boat with a few scallops +10kg weigh and no fins against a spring tide. I was making slow progress when finally baldy copped it and drove back to pick me up… I didn’t ask for help though :crutch
SO at about 12.00 we headed in. Back to base to off load and bail out the boat. We both had a handful of scallops each. All good sizes with the smallies left on the floor (and there were a lot of smallies!! Great for next year!).
Hot Soup, tea, mackerel sandwiches, cheese, almond cake, mince pies and fruit were had ...YUMMY.... remaining boiling water went on our socks and in our gloves and after about 40mins we were back in the boat steaming (liberal use of the word) to that site we just left for a closer investigation
And what a site it was, nice shallow dives and big scallops… it was obviously never before dived. We took our fill from there and after an hour called it a day. We both has a nice bag full of them of a very decent size (bar a couple of legal smallies with nice clean white shells for my daughter as instructed ). We’ll leave the north side till another day.
We headed back, deflated the boat, packed away the bits and bobs and took off home. Vis for the day was pretty good on the bottom of about 5/6m but there was a 3m layer of freshwater on the surface that you had to swim through to see anything. Water temp was generally 9' but at the motherload it was 7'
I went up immediately for a shower and by the time I came down all the scallops were shucked by the missus…. sweet!
Had ‘em nice the classic way with some creamy spuds and black pudding and the rest are in the freezer for Xmas starter. I’ve heard they are very nice smoked, so I may try that!
Happy days.
As they were all cleaned I didn’t get a chance to take a pic, but the missus did put aside the biggest ones see below… 170mm and 180mm
Saturday morning started late on Friday night with rushing home from work, 3 hours training and then late night packing and checking dive gear that had me hitting the sack at 12:30am. Got up a little after 5am and reckon I had about 3ish good hours sleep. Dumped all the gear out on my foot path and waited for baldyfish to pick me up.
He was five minutes late
and we were on the road at about 6.10 we had a stop off in Bantry for some breakfast then off to the dive site. We got there just after 8am and started to set up the boat, engine and our gear. The temp peaked at -3.5 on the way there and was around the freezing mark. We were off for about 8.30. Sunrise was 8.10 and we were well underway to our first spot by the time the sun came over the hills and warmed us up. It was a great feeling to have the plan coming together and things were looking good for the day! It was my first time with the engine on the 3m SIB and it was running sweet… albeit a little slow at about 3knotts. Yet still way faster and more relaxing than swimming roflOur plan was to drive south from our base in the morning with the tide and as the tide sent slack we would come back to base, have some hot food then go north to check some other marks. Of course we were aiming to grab some scallops but this was an exploratory session mainly so the plan was to cover lots of ground and only take the odd scallop until we hit a motherload.
Without a fishfinder we needed to access ground the old fashioned way… throw in the deckhand and scope it out… so off went Baldy on the drops. Our first mark (and the furthest away) was already inhabited by 4 seals with pups so we kept a safe distance and baldy took a few dives. But there was nothing there, so we made our way back to base slowly taking drops until we hit scallops. We were spotting them few and far between until Baldy started hitting quite a few in about 8m and the anchor went over. We dived there for a little bit then came back in the boat a head in a bit more towards base, and started hitting a few more, but as we found before they were all in deeper than 7m. I was wearing my extra 3mm vest (giving me 11mm across the chest and core
) and was trying to get used to the restriction on my breathing… my mask was leaking (luckily I had my spare in the boat) and my legs were getting very painful cramps probably due to training from the night before. And I should say that we’ve barely dived over the last 4 months so there was a noticeable lack of dive fitness.Whilst on this ground we got a visit from a 27ft fishing boat with 2 fishermen from the boglands. It was hard to understand them even for Baldy. They thoroughly scoped out our little boat coming to within a meter off it and running circles around it (coming between myself and my boat! Baldy was sitting on a tube protecting his catch
) and they even were driving over our anchor line / rode. He checked out our catch, wanted to know how many of us were in the water, then had the cheek to ask if we had enough to give him a feed!!! Then the fecker took off but came back later but we ducked in behind some islands. Nervous experience with one of them towering over our punt… I felt like sea Sheppard vs the nishan maru!Next we decided to cover some well known ground with a drift so we set up a 20m line with float from the boat and drifted. We dove straight down from the boat and came up near the float, there was a fast rip. My legs gave up here and I got in the boat and ditched the fins.
When we were both in the boat we headed for base and for some reason, we got our wrong bearings and overshot or base and came in slightly north. Baldy wanted one last check to scope the ground. He was picking up the odd one here and there and then started to wave frantically. He had hit a motherload. When I asked about the depth and he said about 3 / 4m I jumped in without fins and heaved anchor. I did see a few in there but we were both exhausted and cold and my legs had given up completely. I knew I could dive for scallops without fins, but I didn’t really consider swimming back to the boat with a few scallops +10kg weigh and no fins against a spring tide. I was making slow progress when finally baldy copped it and drove back to pick me up… I didn’t ask for help though :crutch
SO at about 12.00 we headed in. Back to base to off load and bail out the boat. We both had a handful of scallops each. All good sizes with the smallies left on the floor (and there were a lot of smallies!! Great for next year!).
Hot Soup, tea, mackerel sandwiches, cheese, almond cake, mince pies and fruit were had ...YUMMY.... remaining boiling water went on our socks and in our gloves and after about 40mins we were back in the boat steaming (liberal use of the word) to that site we just left for a closer investigation
And what a site it was, nice shallow dives and big scallops… it was obviously never before dived. We took our fill from there and after an hour called it a day. We both has a nice bag full of them of a very decent size (bar a couple of legal smallies with nice clean white shells for my daughter as instructed
). We’ll leave the north side till another day.We headed back, deflated the boat, packed away the bits and bobs and took off home. Vis for the day was pretty good on the bottom of about 5/6m but there was a 3m layer of freshwater on the surface that you had to swim through to see anything. Water temp was generally 9' but at the motherload it was 7'
I went up immediately for a shower and by the time I came down all the scallops were shucked by the missus…. sweet!
Had ‘em nice the classic way with some creamy spuds and black pudding and the rest are in the freezer for Xmas starter. I’ve heard they are very nice smoked, so I may try that!
Happy days.
As they were all cleaned I didn’t get a chance to take a pic, but the missus did put aside the biggest ones see below… 170mm and 180mm
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Ya wat rob said...... Nice to get out for 5 hours in 8 degree water with the fingers in my gloves missing and a wetsuit too big after shedding a few pounds. Good to get the Christmas scallops into the freezer!!
So had myself prawn, squid and scallops for dinner.
So that's my scalloping done for 2012. Gonna leave them alone now for Xmas 2012.
So had myself prawn, squid and scallops for dinner.
So that's my scalloping done for 2012. Gonna leave them alone now for Xmas 2012.
Balls
Right on my backdoor
heads up on future bassfishing in east cork - World Sea Fishing Forums
Sigh... well at least there was a 9.5lb cod pulled off monkstown wall a few days ago... must get out for a shot.
Right on my backdoor
heads up on future bassfishing in east cork - World Sea Fishing Forums
Sigh... well at least there was a 9.5lb cod pulled off monkstown wall a few days ago... must get out for a shot.
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I wonder has this anything to do with ballycotton constantly illegally selling wild bass coming up to Christmas. If it is I'm going to boycott and spread the word to everyone to do the same.
Somebody has to be buying them and the people buying them are criminals as well as the fishermen.
These nets have to be pulled.
So much for our "great" fisheries. If this is common knowledge how is nothing being done about it?
Somebody has to be buying them and the people buying them are criminals as well as the fishermen.
These nets have to be pulled.
So much for our "great" fisheries. If this is common knowledge how is nothing being done about it?
Some of you might want to look here? http://forums.deeperblue.com/beach-bar/93299-happy-birthday-fcallagy.html#post867726