I would have had 5 limits, but damn family thinks clamming is about messing around on the beach...
I got talked into spending Friday night at a Hotel/Motel so we got there in the evening, flew kites and messed around.
Next morning, no-one was up, so I watched the sunrise and walked around until I saw my first "show",
dug a quick limit, and went back to the hotel to get the family.........
an hour and a half later we FINALLY made it back to the beach, except now it was almost low tide and the good area was up in the hard sand, and dug up pretty good.
my wife dug her limit while the kids played in the surf, then had to go change their clothes so we could get back home and ride the "Easter Train" @ 2:30...
then, just to make it interesting, I had a brake-line come undone just as I slowed to 35 coming into Frances .
with luck the house across the street had people home and the guy had a hose clamp and some brake fluid, so 20 min. later we were on the road again, but my daughters were heart broken that they were going to miss the train.
I decided to try and talk them into just letting them do the egg hunt, so we went anyhow, and they had so many people show up that they were going to do the train one more time and my girls got to be in the hunt !!
So it all worked out great, except I only got 2 limits of clams for the trip, and the kids got some melted chocolate..
pretty expensive clam dinner.
