Been trying to go Scalloping for 3 weeks and the weather has not been good enough to warrant going. The weather looked good for today so we decided to go and try a new place. Had been hearing about Lanark and as luck would have it a friend of mine was going down as well today. So we gave it a try. I knew that Ranaman knew the area and gave him a call. He gave me awesome info on where to fish and try to scallop.
Thanks again Ranaman!! It was near dead calm 1st thing this morn and the water was 79-80 degrees. The water was stained about like Ecofina when it has not rained much. FishingCpa got on the water before us and was fishing near where we were going to start fishing. With the help of Mike at the Lanark Market we got on the water and headed down there and started fishing. My beautiful wife got the 1st fish and this was it.
A 25" 5lb 3oz with a 13.5 girth
It is her biggest fish ever!!! And a good bit bigger than my biggest ever trout. She caught another keeper shortly afterward and that was all we caught. I got a big fat skunk....nada. Fishingcpa's crew had 3 trout in the box before they left us looking for other places to fish. Around 9:30 we decided to look for scallops but the water was to stained to see from the surface. So my wife got in and I idled along till she saw a likely spot.
The scallops were really hard to spot at our 1st stop so we moved to a deeper spot with more open bottom and got into them pretty good. We wound up with 5 gallons that shucked to yield almost 3 pints.
The size of the meat in relation to the shell was amazing. Most were like the end digit of your thumb.
While my son and I were cleaning scallops my wife was having fun feeding chips to the seagulls. it was quite comical.
