Non-fishing report, sort of... - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Aaron&Julie · 12-23-2011, 05:50 PM

...unless you call clamming with a pitchfork, fishing.
I've been itching to try some of these extreme minus low tides in the winter, and see how I'd do. Only the 2nd time ever clamming, the 1st was about 35 years ago off of Huntington beach, where I only got a few shorts. Much better results this time, limits in about an hour and a half, after developing a technique. All easily over the 4.5" minimum requirement, the 2 dinks, 5" each, the other 8 were just about 6" each, +/-.
Now, if anybody knows a good technique for cleaning and preparing them, I'm all ears, and would appreciate it.
One other clammer on the beach, an Aussie I believe, mentioned baking them (on the half shell) with all kinds of goodies inside, leaning towards a Mexican zest.

Here's the bathtub shot with a 12" ruler for gage:

12-23-2011, 05:50 PM	#1
Aaron&Julie Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Spring Valley Posts: 1,400	Non-fishing report, sort of... ...unless you call clamming with a pitchfork, fishing. I've been itching to try some of these extreme minus low tides in the winter, and see how I'd do. Only the 2nd time ever clamming, the 1st was about 35 years ago off of Huntington beach, where I only got a few shorts. Much better results this time, limits in about an hour and a half, after developing a technique. All easily over the 4.5" minimum requirement, the 2 dinks, 5" each, the other 8 were just about 6" each, +/-. Now, if anybody knows a good technique for cleaning and preparing them, I'm all ears, and would appreciate it. One other clammer on the beach, an Aussie I believe, mentioned baking them (on the half shell) with all kinds of goodies inside, leaning towards a Mexican zest. Here's the bathtub shot with a 12" ruler for gage: __________________ "Never say die"