Hunting Washington Forum

Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: 92xj on February 10, 2015, 06:57:00 AM


Advertise Here
Title: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: 92xj on February 10, 2015, 06:57:00 AM
Anyone going to be in Long Beach this Sunday digging for clams? 
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: 92xj on February 12, 2015, 10:12:31 AM
Nobody clamming at all?
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on February 12, 2015, 10:14:52 AM
I'll be in westport  :tup:
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: HTCS on February 12, 2015, 10:35:52 AM
I'll be in Longbeach on Sunday/Monday.  First timer...we'll see what happens.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: gallion_t on February 12, 2015, 10:40:33 AM
Not this weekend, but just booked a room for the march dig. Havent been clam digging in about 10 years so it should be fun.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: HighCountryHunter88 on February 12, 2015, 10:50:37 AM
ill be there, first time too sooo...  :chuckle:
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: 92xj on February 12, 2015, 10:54:20 AM
Any of you guys coming from the Bremerton area?

Also, I'm not digging but I'll be out their till Monday. If you see a canopied titan with a yellow lab and Airedale, most likely by a fire on the beach, stop by and say hello.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: gasman on February 12, 2015, 11:25:24 AM
I will be in Westport sunday clam digging with the wife and maybe tom, that's if he shows up.

 :chuckle:
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: bowtech721 on February 12, 2015, 11:31:47 AM
Ill be digging long beach sunday. Never dug clams down there, always on the northern beaches. Should be fun since were gonna be down there anyways.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: kisfish on February 12, 2015, 12:05:14 PM
Over on long beach the cranberry approach = little clams
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Carl on February 12, 2015, 12:15:26 PM
There's an outside chance my wife and I will hit one of the 2 beaches Sunday. 

Tip: Last time I was at Long Beach, people were getting small clams.  We went way North, past the lighthouse looking house, and got into large clams.

I guess you never know...but I thought I would pass that on.

Carl


 
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: HTCS on February 12, 2015, 12:35:00 PM
I'll be in a maroon 2008 Suburban with wife, 2 teens and a 2 year old on a leash (not a dog). 
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Encore 280 on February 12, 2015, 01:03:54 PM
Before we started digging at Grayland we always dug north of Ocean Park right up by the lighthouse looking house, nice clams there and if ya dig between the signed white posts you'll get nice big clams in no time flat!! It'll be the spot where there's nobody else digging. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: chester on February 12, 2015, 01:40:02 PM
Do not take this advice ^


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: kenzmad on February 12, 2015, 09:01:35 PM
Not this weekend but will be there next weekend. Taking a new crew so we will see how it goes.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: h2ofowlr on February 12, 2015, 09:24:11 PM
Before we started digging at Grayland we always dug north of Ocean Park right up by the lighthouse looking house, nice clams there and if ya dig between the signed white posts you'll get nice big clams in no time flat!! It'll be the spot where there's nobody else digging. :chuckle:

Funny!  This is right in front of our place.  Parking lot!  They need to paint parking stripes on the sand in this location.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Fishnclifff on February 12, 2015, 10:35:00 PM
We will be up by the lighthouse.
Black dodge nitro and a toyota rav4.
Will have the grandkids, so it should be a hoot.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on February 12, 2015, 11:09:09 PM
I'll be in westport  :tup:

Grayland for me.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: chester on February 12, 2015, 11:20:19 PM
^ I'll be out behind the minute mart


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: fishnfur on February 12, 2015, 11:54:44 PM
Great fun learning as a child how to dig razors at Copalis Beach.  Once learned, it seemed too easy.  40-some years later, that may not be the case, but I'm not driving way out there to stand cold and wet on the edge of the surf to chase bivalves.

I somehow prefer the hard shell clams of Puget Sound and Hood Canal.  I go there when I want chowder or pasta vongole,  No movement by the prey.   It's just like picking up nuggets of gold, but more edible. 

I may be in Long Beach for the weekend but I'm not diggin' (unless my boss or the kids make me). 

Good luck all! 
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Sportfury on February 13, 2015, 01:36:27 AM
Grayland or Westport for me.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: 92xj on February 15, 2015, 04:24:38 PM
Our normal quiet low key mid February vacation is jacked with this cloudless 65 degree opening clam dig. Its cool to see everyone enjoying themselves.  Time to find a new place for us and the dogs to enjoy a vacation and a beach to ourselves. No real complaints at all. The past two years it's been dead here on this weekend which is great for us and the pups, this year is a different story. Maybe next year we will head north and explore the San Juan islands for the weekend. Hope everyone got their clams. Looks like about 15 minutes is all a lot of these folks need for their limits.  :tup:
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on February 15, 2015, 08:18:43 PM
Weather was great and the digging fantastic today at Grayland. Beach was packed too.

15 minute or less limits of really nice clams. The drive to and from the beach was another matter though. On the way out we were delayed over an hour by a two car wreck near Brady's Oysters. Traffic was backed up at least halfway to Aberdeen. Then on the way back again we were delayed and unbelievably, there was another two car accident withing 100 feet of there the first one was.

Stupid drivers and their smart phones, or something like that.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: dscubame on February 15, 2015, 08:28:06 PM
My daughter and I will be at Grayland. 
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: gasman on February 15, 2015, 08:53:24 PM
Weather was great and the digging fantastic today at Grayland. Beach was packed too.

15 minute or less limits of really nice clams. The drive to and from the beach was another matter though. On the way out we were delayed over an hour by a two car wreck near Brady's Oysters. Traffic was backed up at least halfway to Aberdeen. Then on the way back again we were delayed and unbelievably, there was another two car accident withing 100 feet of there the first one was.

Stupid drivers and their smart phones, or something like that.

We saw the accident shortly after it happened on our way out, that traffic was back up bad.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: 92xj on February 15, 2015, 09:40:07 PM
There was a grand Cherokee on the beach here that rolled on the sand, broke a c-clip axle, lost tire and wheel, windshield and all the driver side.... Driver was no where to be found when the sun came up.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Sportfury on February 15, 2015, 10:50:21 PM
Weather was great and the digging fantastic today at Grayland. Beach was packed too.

15 minute or less limits of really nice clams. The drive to and from the beach was another matter though. On the way out we were delayed over an hour by a two car wreck near Brady's Oysters. Traffic was backed up at least halfway to Aberdeen. Then on the way back again we were delayed and unbelievably, there was another two car accident withing 100 feet of there the first one was.

Stupid drivers and their smart phones, or something like that.

We saw the accident shortly after it happened on our way out, that traffic was back up bad.

The accident happened about twenty cars in front of us. The black SUV had an elderly couple in it from what my wife says. My buddy was caught in the aftermath and didn't make to the beach until after low tide.
Title: Re: Long Beach clam digging
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on February 15, 2015, 10:59:30 PM
The second wreck was a pickup and a small white car. We left the beach about 45 minutes after low tide, because the first wreck delayed us from getting to the beach until after low water. They were putting the 2nd two rigs on tow truck when we came back by Brady's.
SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal