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My brother and his daughter came in friday from North Carolina to go scalloping with us on saturday. We had a fishfry that night and headed out at 5:30 sat morning. We like to get to the ramp early to get good parking and we like to fish for a while before getting in the water. Ran all the way to Greymare and started fishing. The fish were very uncooperative and by 9:00 we headed to the scallop spot. We got in the water and started finding them right away. Had been the water for a little while and my boy got in the boat to empty his bag and my phone rings. He calls out to my saying that my friend Lee and his family are coming out the river and wants to join us, so I tell him and shortly thereafter he pulls up near us and drops anchor. The scallops have been having tons of slipper shells attached to them, so as I pick them up I usually pop a few of them loose before putting the scallops in my bag. A little later I noticed a 2' remora following me around(eating them I guess). He followed me the whole time and even hung around the boat while we cleaned the scallops. My boy would toss a wad of scallop guts in the water and he would come out from under the boat and eat it. After we cleaned our limit we(with Lee's family behind us)went up the Wakulla to pull the kids on the tube. The had a good time with that and once we got to the bridge we got them in the boat and went further up the river to cool off and look for manatee's. Ended up seeing one huge one and a female with a calf. It was cool, one came up behind the boat and looked at us. My brother took a picture of it right next to the boat but forgot to hit save. It was a great day on the water with family and friends. cant wait to do it again.
Good day, congrats. Just curious, do you usually clean scallops where you are scalloping. I don't scallop, so this maybe stupid, but won't that chum in big critters? I was thinking that big remora was probably swimming with something large and in charge.
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Salty Gator wrote:Good day, congrats. Just curious, do you usually clean scallops where you are scalloping. I don't scallop, so this maybe stupid, but won't that chum in big critters? I was thinking that big remora was probably swimming with something large and in charge.
We do unless we are in a big group of boats(which most of the time we are not) Besides it is not bloody and the pins tear it up very quickly.
My brother and his daughter came in friday from North Carolina to go scalloping with us on saturday. We had a fishfry that night and headed out at 5:30 sat morning. We like to get to the ramp early to get good parking and we like to fish for a while before getting in the water. Ran all the way to Greymare and started fishing. The fish were very uncooperative and by 9:00 we headed to the scallop spot. We got in the water and started finding them right away. Had been the water for a little while and my boy got in the boat to empty his bag and my phone rings. He calls out to my saying that my friend Lee and his family are coming out the river and wants to join us, so I tell him and shortly thereafter he pulls up near us and drops anchor. The scallops have been having tons of slipper shells attached to them, so as I pick them up I usually pop a few of them loose before putting the scallops in my bag. A little later I noticed a 2' remora following me around(eating them I guess). He followed me the whole time and even hung around the boat while we cleaned the scallops. My boy would toss a wad of scallop guts in the water and he would come out from under the boat and eat it. 
After we cleaned our limit we(with Lee's family behind us)went up the Wakulla to pull the kids on the tube. The had a good time with that and once we got to the bridge we got them in the boat and went further up the river to cool off and look for manatee's. Ended up seeing one huge one and a female with a calf. It was cool, one came up behind the boat and looked at us. My brother took a picture of it right next to the boat but forgot to hit save. 
It was a great day on the water with family and friends. cant wait to do it again. 
