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Mike B
Was using a clam gun to get sand shrimp and was getting them and I think horse neck clams, sometimes on the same pull.
Up here the limit is:
40 clams or 10# of little necks, butters, softs, macoma and cockles.
7 horse clams
and in some places we get a bonus of 24 cockles.
Papers don't have a separate limit here so they fall in the 10# 40 clam limit as far as I know.
What is the best way to tell them apart?
The could be soft shells but I don't know. The pictures from WDFW looked like horse but might not have been. The shells were kinda "soft" but not so bad they didn't hold up for the most part although I did mutilate 3 of them. The biggest horse or soft was 4 inches with the biggest cockle 3.5 inches.
Up here the limit is:
40 clams or 10# of little necks, butters, softs, macoma and cockles.
7 horse clams
and in some places we get a bonus of 24 cockles.
Papers don't have a separate limit here so they fall in the 10# 40 clam limit as far as I know.
What is the best way to tell them apart?
Whatever the limits are taking my 3 kids with me gives one hell of a lot of clams for an awesome pot of chowder!