someone take me to school on scallops

[Charles]

Be courteous to other scallopers and do not clean your scallops where you have just been looking for them. I personally appreciate people not chumming the water I'm swimming in. Also, the shells tossed overboard can make is more difficult and frustrating for anyone searching the area after you leave. Better to go about 1/2 mile or mile out from the crowd to clean them.

When you do this drift with a live pinfish or two hanging behind the boat and you may very well catch a cobia.

[mbweimar]

or...a shark haha

thanks for all the helpful input everyone. i may very well pass on the scalloping this weekend. but if the weather is nice enough ill head out there for some fishing.

[tallykenj]

This if one of those DO NOT rules-
Do NOT forget a mesh bag and decide the mesh bag in your swim trunks will hold a a dozen or so until you can get back to the boat! When they try to swim free that "clicking" of the shell referred to earlier can prove very painful.

Don't put them in the pocket of your mesh-lined swimsuit either.

[J Holden]

Be courteous to other scallopers and do not clean your scallops where you have just been looking for them. I personally appreciate people not chumming the water I'm swimming in. Also, the shells tossed overboard can make is more difficult and frustrating for anyone searching the area after you leave. Better to go about 1/2 mile or mile out from the crowd to clean them.

Aw, but it's hilarious watching people scream like little girls at a 3 foot blacktip! You'd think it was Jaws from their squealing.