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I need to do that someday. Last weekend I had the fried razor clams at Tidal Raves. That might have been my first time eating razor clams. Delicious.For Father’s Day weekend my family and I went and stayed at nehalem bay state park.
You have to try it at least once! Clamming, then eating the harvest! Nothing like fresh caught razors. You can by them sometimes at the fishmonger (or Costco), but never the same.Sounds like a good day to me. Never been razor-clamming and have actually never eaten one. I know, blasphemy around these parts..
A great excuse to head to the coast. Unfortunately, I usually head the other way in search of sunnier weather.I need to try it out! Down a google rabbit hole I go...
That’s a great point Roger. At seaside Saturday towards the end of the tide cycle, the clams up further were deeper than I’ve ever seen. They were 18-24” down, which is back breaking. The shallower clams were definitely closer to the surfwhile not universally true, a good tip for new diggers- I find the clams are not as deep and show much better early in the tide cycle, when the low is not that long after sunrise. After several days of the beach above them being exposed and dry, many of the razors seem to stay deep and wait for there to be more water above.
last Monday, 6am low, the first day of this cycle- big shows all over, I was done in 20 minutes and the clams were mostly just half the gun deep.
then on Sunday, same exact beach, 11am low, last day of the cycle- very subtle shows, some just a small disturbance of wet sand as a wave receded, took me 2 hours to limit and most were at least a full gun deep, several took a second punch to get.
So the end of a tide cycle is when the clams seem to be much deeper? It makes sense. I have only gone a few times and it was an easy 20-30min tops to get my limit even on my first trip ever which was a night trip last year. This last time I went to Seaside on the very last week. Brought my visiting family this time and I was telling them how easy it was and that we would be right in and out of there. Nope, not this time. took me like 30 min just to get my first clam. I dug a bunch of what I am positive were shows and plunged them about 2-3 times and felt around and nothing. The clams I did catch eventually took 2 plunges for 90% of them because of how deep they were in the sand. In the end I got my limit but it took like an hour and a half to two hours and my family got about 7-8 each since they were done after that due to having to dig so deep and tired out. I'm still new to all this so I'm learning on the go.That’s a great point Roger. At seaside Saturday towards the end of the tide cycle, the clams up further were deeper than I’ve ever seen. They were 18-24” down, which is back breaking. The shallower clams were definitely closer to the surf