Scallops

[DaveBBQ]

This is a great video of someone called Jack free diving for scallops in the Channel Islands.
It helped me to know what to look for. Now I just need to be able to stay down for long enough to find them and know where to look.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd0U-2J23OA]YouTube - Scallop Freediving[/ame]

 

[foxfish]

Well spotted - you can tell Magppie you liked it if you like as he is an active member.

 

[Spaniard]

Magpie? Jack? I'm very confused........Pass the cider! :friday

 

[Magpie]

Glad you enjoyed it Dave

 

[Marwan]

whew!, i thought i would watch pastor with his buiscuit cutter cutting scallops out of a stingray

 

[Pastor]

rofl rofl I'd forgotten about that rofl

 

[Mr. X]

Excellent. I think you missed one though . Enjoyed the music - esp. the Cold Water one, as I sit here in the cold (our Worcester furnace breaks down whenever it gets coldrofl).

The vis. looked very good but those scallops were well hidden. Good practice for flattie fishing? I'm guessing that's a known scallop bed with the pro boat there an' all. DaveBBQ, the ones I've found have been by chance & each time have been given away an old shell nearby. About half of those I've found have been among rocks/pebbles, rather than buried like those in the film, and in shallower but murkier water.

What's the big OMD grip weight for - is it used like a drop/pendulum weight or is there more too it (as I suspect from the wire & yellow pole/rope)? Where is your camera mounted?

 

[Almostafish]

Nice vid guys. Looks far too much like hard work for a queen! We are lucky here if you know where to look.

 

[Magpie]

Viz was good but the film made it seem better than it actually was. In 9m the bottom came into view about halfway down.

The commercial boys generally work the deeper water a bit further out, but yes, I knew they'd be there.

The weight is one of Dave's belt weights with some wire grips bodged onto it to anchor my float. I leave the float as a marker and work a search pattern around it to ensure I don't cover the same ground, then lift it up, swim 30m and repeat. It needs the grips because the tide can be quite strong out there.

Ah the camera mount, well that was quite ingenious actually..... It took quite a bit of thought and bodging to get right but what I came up with was to use this thing I found on the end of my arm, I think I've heard people call it a "hund". I'm lucky, I've discovered I've got two of them :t

 

[monchan]

"Yummy but not raw"

Go on give it a go.
I mix a bit of oyster sauce (just a bit) with soy sauce and lemon juice
and chow down as soon as I get cleaned up and have a beer in my hand.
YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY.

Great Vid. I used to live on Kangaroo Island off the coast of south
Australia. A place called american river had scallops everywhere.
The Island is a great place to take your guns, if anyone ever goes to Aust.
but has some big fish with big big teeth.

 

[kale]

I thought this thread was about scallops in California's Channel Islands. We get rock scallops that look like this, they taste great. They can be a little tough to spot for newer divers. I tell them to look for something that looks like a verticle smile

 

[abusingelves]

hey guys. i'm on the scallops trail at the moment.

say i found scallops shells empty at a particular location, would that mean that scallops live relatively nearby?

would this be normal?

 

[Magpie]

It either means there's scallops nearby, or someone has gone out in their boat, caught some, then come back in to where you saw the shells and cleaned his catch there, chucking the empty shells overboard...

 

[Almostafish]

Yeah as Magpie has said empty shells just means your too late! Scallops are everywhere and as soon as you get your eye you will be doing scallop kebabs like the rest of us.

I have found scallops on soft and hard beds and in all sorts of depths and currents. Just dont be looking for something that looks like the image below..

Look for the beards.

 

[Lockedin]

I thought this thread was about scallops in California's Channel Islands. We get rock scallops that look like this, they taste great. They can be a little tough to spot for newer divers. I tell them to look for something that looks like a verticle smile

I thought the same! I love 'em fresh, as in still in my wetsuit fresh, with a bit of soy sauce. But I'll bet the kebabs would be good, if I could just get them home! Nice Vid!

 

[kale]

I agree raw is the best. I also like them seared or wrapped in bacon and bbq'ed. I did tank dive on a offshore pinnacle, here on the central coast that came up to 15ft and dropped to 120. I didn't see any scallops until about 90ft, then they were everywhere. I see them shallower sometimes, but like abalone, they are way back in a crack. At the channel islands and in Nor Cal I see them in much shallower in abundance. The only thing I cal figure is that otters chow on them, and don't like to dive very deep.