Yeah, that pond’s okay, but it’s mostly raked out,” the guy at Coop’s Bait & Tackle was telling me. He was right: a few days earlier, I had been standing in nearby Sengekontacket Pond, a tidal pond on ...

With a rake in one hand and a cooler bag in the other, I climbed out of a kayak ready to go clamming for the first time. I was with 18 others, all ready to rake and probe the sandbars off the warm ...

Sammy held the dark, odd-shaped, deep brown clump of stuff in his hand, showed it to me and said, ”Grandpa, is this doo-doo?” “NO-NO, no doo- doo, absolutely not,” I said. “It’s pure, clean, good mud.

Day passes and annual permits can be purchased at the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. Each person digging must have their own container for collecting shellfish and their own permit. Daily ...

Whether they’re steamed, fried, or the main component of a hearty chowder, clams are a New England staple. They can be found at nearly every seaside restaurant—from casual, on-the-beach eateries to ...

Clam-digging is almost universally misunderstood, it seems to me, even in clam-adjacent locales such as Long Island, where few seem capable of articulating digging’s charms, and fewer still can ...

Ah, to savor the salty, sweet, delicate juices of a hard-shell clam. Served raw on the half-shell, baked, fried, chowdered or even in spaghetti sauce, this is the shellfish most familiar to Long ...

6am Monday morning the water is smooth as glass. The cold night has been replaced by the chill of early morning as we cruise across the Great Egg Bay on my buddy's seventeen foot Carolina skiff. He ...

Makayla Richardson is your community news reporter covering southern San Luis Obispo County, including Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Oceano, Arroyo Grande, and Nipomo. Clams in Pismo Beach ...