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Expensive scallops

Scallop season (bay scallops) started July 1 but we were in Wyoming
for all of July so tomorrow is our first opportunity to go get em.
This has become expensive: salt water licenses for 3 people=$41.00.
Two dive masks=$50 (our old ones got lost over the years). Fishing
stuff for when one of the kids gets bored scalloping =$40. New clip
on polarized sunglasses =$7.00. Batteries for the GPS, sunscreen, a
hat, chips, ice $25.00. Fuel for the Dodge Ram to get there and back
towing the boat $20.00, Gas for the boat, $25.00. This is effin
insane.
If we really did this more it might be worth it but I know my wife
will not go fishing again for a year, neither will my son. The masks
will probably get used two more times in the course of a year
snorkelling in springs.

Expensive scallops

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Scallop season (bay scallops) started July 1 but we were in Wyoming
for all of July so tomorrow is our first opportunity to go get em.
This has become expensive: salt water licenses for 3 people=$41.00.
Two dive masks=$50 (our old ones got lost over the years). Fishing
stuff for when one of the kids gets bored scalloping =$40. New clip
on polarized sunglasses =$7.00. Batteries for the GPS, sunscreen, a
hat, chips, ice $25.00. Fuel for the Dodge Ram to get there and back
towing the boat $20.00, Gas for the boat, $25.00. This is effin
insane.
If we really did this more it might be worth it but I know my wife
will not go fishing again for a year, neither will my son. The masks
will probably get used two more times in the course of a year
snorkelling in springs.

An alternate method...
http://www.dbkenneyfisheries.com/scallops.html

Expensive scallops

On Aug 9, 12:56 am, Larry wrote:
wrote in news:a4372082-022d-414e-b0fb-
:

Fuel for the Dodge Ram to get there and back
towing the boat $20.00,

You live right at the boat ramp? $20 won't run a V-8 Ram to the end of the
driveway!

7 gallons of scallops to clean. We get home and find our well pump
has gone out, NO WATER. At last, we run a hose 300' to the neighbor,
cold showers outside tonight and we all smell like scallop guts.

Expensive scallops

On Aug 9, 7:53*pm, wrote:
On Aug 9, 12:56 am, Larry wrote:

wrote in news:a4372082-022d-414e-b0fb-
:

Fuel for the Dodge Ram to get there and back
towing the boat $20.00,

You live right at the boat ramp? *$20 won't run a V-8 Ram to the end of the
driveway!

7 gallons of scallops to clean. *We get home and find our well pump
has gone out, NO WATER. *At last, we run a hose 300' to the neighbor,
cold showers outside tonight and we all smell like scallop guts.

Yeah, but you get to eat fresh scallops, right?

Expensive scallops

On Aug 9, 8:31 pm, hk wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Aug 9, 12:56 am, Larry wrote:
wrote in news:a4372082-022d-414e-b0fb-
:

Fuel for the Dodge Ram to get there and back
towing the boat $20.00,
You live right at the boat ramp? $20 won't run a V-8 Ram to the end of the
driveway!
7 gallons of scallops to clean. We get home and find our well pump
has gone out, NO WATER. At last, we run a hose 300' to the neighbor,
cold showers outside tonight and we all smell like scallop guts.

Do you use the shop vac method to clean them?
Some Florida guys posting on the CS forum do that.
Pretty interesting.
http://www.carolinaskiffowner.com/sh...&highlight=sca...

Video link in the thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTCPwms2sE

--Vic

Never saw or heard of that before...thanks...

--
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and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion,
regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts
to weaken or undermine that right."

We seriously considered the shop vac method but without any water to
clean my shop vac well......................so, we did em all by hand.

Expensive scallops

On Aug 9, 9:52 pm, wrote:
On Aug 9, 8:31 pm, hk wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Aug 9, 12:56 am, Larry wrote:
wrote in news:a4372082-022d-414e-b0fb-
:

Fuel for the Dodge Ram to get there and back
towing the boat $20.00,
You live right at the boat ramp? $20 won't run a V-8 Ram to the end of the
driveway!
7 gallons of scallops to clean. We get home and find our well pump
has gone out, NO WATER. At last, we run a hose 300' to the neighbor,
cold showers outside tonight and we all smell like scallop guts.

Do you use the shop vac method to clean them?
Some Florida guys posting on the CS forum do that.
Pretty interesting.
http://www.carolinaskiffowner.com/sh...&highlight=sca...

Video link in the thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTCPwms2sE

--Vic

Never saw or heard of that before...thanks...

--
"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade
and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion,
regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts
to weaken or undermine that right."

We seriously considered the shop vac method but without any water to
clean my shop vac well......................so, we did em all by hand.

I used to wear contact lenses inside my dive mask but I can no longer
wear em and my eyes are so bad I cannot see anything 2' in front of me
without glasses. I do not have a prescription mask yet so snorkelling
for me is out. I tried to use a 5 gal bucket with plexiglas in the
bottom to see through. This sorta worked but in deep water Ichest
deep) I then couldnt reach reach the scallops on bottom even with a
short hnadled net. My kids were able to get most of the scallops.
Finally, we got into water about knee deep where I could see em on the
bottom and pick em up.
I got talked into going again this coming Wed so I dont know what I'll
do except run the boat.

Expensive scallops