Cobiacatcher

I have found that the best and quickest way to clean scallops is to soak them in a cooler of ice water overnight. When you wake up in the morning all of them will be wide open. Then you can take you shop vac suck the guts out and will be left with only the meat. I tried this last year because some old guy at the boat ramp shared some of his wisdom with me.. Works great, try it.

sc23

Okay, never tried that. I'"d never use a shop vac.



Just my thing.

AUradar

maybe easier, but, doing it on the boat right after you finish catching them in the end is easier to me. You can go through them pretty quick with a knife. Keep the meat, throw everything else back in the water. No real clean up afterward. Don't even have to get your cooler dirty if you keep the catch in buckets.

LibertyCall

Where do you go to find em? I've never harvested them myself, but I sure am game!

Doug

GAHUNTER

I'll bet that's one fine smelling shop vac container! Don't know if there's enough lemon juice and baking soda in the Panhandle to kill that smell.

AUradar

port saint joe

scallopman

Were you in Port St Joe in the last week? I am going for my second 08' visit in a few days and was curious if anyone was still finding any. We got a bunch over the fourth of July but the majority of them were small and we left them there.

Thanks! Scallopman

AUradar

we were there the 4th weekend. we went out one morning and found a few, but not many and it took a long time. Asked around and that was pretty much the theme among all boaters out there. had a little boat trouble and needed to spend times with the little ones and parents, so we didn't do much after that.

Wouldn't mind trying again in late august though

Seegul51

Going third week in August, we use the guts for fish bait, redfish love it. So while we are cleaning we put the rods out in the flats.

ditchdoctor81

We will be there next weekend. I'll let everyone know how we do.