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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: kukusya on July 05, 2016, 08:34:44 AM
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Good morning all,
Finally decide to take all my family for summer adventure. But do not know any places that family friendly and open in July. Please advice with spots. Thank you
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Dosewallips State Park, on the Hood Canal by Brinnon. Great for manila clams, and good for oysters. Good tides this week in the early afternoon.
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We use to do well on oysters in hoods port, that was years ago though..
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:yeah:
We will be camping at Dosewallips starting tomorrow.
There is generally a good afternoon tide or early afternoon tide you can make a day trip of it. Go over to get your clams have lunch and go home that works out really great.
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No R in July
mmm not me
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We are going this Saturday for a day trip with all my family. so what do I need except shovel and rakes?
Thank you all HUNT WA family.
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Dosewallips is a great suggestion. Bring a separate container for all of you for the clams, something to put your shucked oysters in, again separate containers for all of you, an oyster shucker and of course your discover pass
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No shovels necessary. We use a rake that's about the size of a hoe. Not sure what you call it and small hand potting style rakes. The clams are about 6 to 8 inches deep generally.
We will be having fresh homemade clam chowder in camp for dinner Thursday night. :kneel:
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Point Whitney is another place for clams. I've dug clams at the mouth of the duckabush river also. You need to walk way out to find the clams but once your there it's easy digging.
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I grew up on the canal and my parents have a commercial seafood company out there. I can say that the canal is the best place to get shellfish. No Commerical shipping lanes. Not a lot of pollution. There is a reason why all the high end oyster bars carry hood canal oysters. Maybe it's because of all the septic tanks within 100 feet of the water??? :chuckle:
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Another place on the canal we used to go to all the time was Duckabush. Used to be great for both clams and oysters.
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The only place I've been on the canal for clams and oysters was Potlatch state park. Not a huge area but we did pretty good.
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15 minutes 2 kid limit plus 40 elk in the park. 10 bulls 10 babies 20 cows
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Pics from today
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I grew up on the canal and my parents have a commercial seafood company out there. I can say that the canal is the best place to get shellfish. No Commerical shipping lanes. Not a lot of pollution. There is a reason why all the high end oyster bars carry hood canal oysters. Maybe it's because of all the septic tanks within 100 feet of the water??? :chuckle:
Well it does have a whole bunch of nuclear reactors in it too.
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Than you all. Wa had a blast
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You need to shuck the oysters and leave the shells on the beach other than that, great job glad you had fun.
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Also would dump that varnish clam. And rinse the manillas in canal water real good. Then leave a little water in the buckets for them to clean themselves a bit more! Nice haul!
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Here's a picture of the ones I planted last year, there's around 250 left. I planted 1000 this year in early June. There's 20 in my hand.
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Here's a picture of the ones I planted last year, there's around 250 left. I planted 1000 this year in early June. There's 20 in my hand.
thats awesome, are those your private beds or something you just mess around with? My grandma used to own a good portion of the beach side of 3crabs road and back in the day they would plant oysters but to many people would take them, it wasn't worth it after that
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You need to shuck the oysters and leave the shells on the beach other than that, great job glad you had fun.
I don't think most people know that removing the oyster shells from the beach kills the beds. It would be nice if the wdfw would include that little snippet in the fishing regs. Doing so would greatly improve the sustainability of the oyster beds on public beaches.
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Ok ok ok. Did you see me leaving with oysters. I gues dont. If you look at the picture you'll see I still on the beach, varnish clams was removed ( since kids where picked them up) and every Manila was measured.
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FYI
54 of them, and we don't even pick limit since 2 of younger one wasn't participating
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Thank you all.
I guess no more picture since all of you too much judgmental, with out knowing details of anything.
But we had great time yesterday with out anyone *censored*ting on it.
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I don't think anyone was judging on here. We were simply informing people who may not know better of the implications of removing oyster shells from the beach. I personally have had to educate people in my own party when we were harvesting oysters at our private beach, it is not something most people are aware of. It looks like it was a great day with the family, and a great meal to enjoy afterwards.
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Thank you all.
I guess no more picture since all of you too much judgmental, with out knowing details of anything.
But we had great time yesterday with out anyone *censored*ting on it.
That's the last time I post on any of your threads. All I see from anyone is good sound advise and you get butt hurt. Everyone is so sensitive now a days it makes me sad.
Nice picture of your family.
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:yeah:
I just wanted to inform you of the "R" rule
to avoid PSP
enjoy them
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highside74 I mean no harm, and I'm so sorry if I read/understand your post in wrong way.
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highside74 I mean no harm, and I'm so sorry if I read/understand your post in wrong way.
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Here's a picture of the ones I planted last year, there's around 250 left. I planted 1000 this year in early June. There's 20 in my hand.
thats awesome, are those your private beds or something you just mess around with? My grandma used to own a good portion of the beach side of 3crabs road and back in the day they would plant oysters but to many people would take them, it wasn't worth it after that
I'm kind of in that same situation, my grandpa bought some tidelands on Whidbey years ago and he had oysters when I grew up. Since my grandparents passed away the family still has there place so about 6 years ago I bought seed at Taylor shellfish and I have been growing them ever since. I'm lucky it's not publicly accessible just a few neighbors that have permission to help themselves so they kinda police it for me
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No R in July
mmm not me
Haha, however we have refrigeration and red tide testing these days, I wouldn't worry about it.... :rolleyes:
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highside74 I mean no harm, and I'm so sorry if I read/understand your post in wrong way.
No problem. I'm glad you went and had a good time.
Tip... Next time save time for pie at the halfway house restaurant.
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Next time I'll check out. Boys was too hungry so we stop at Hama Hama for crab cakes, there where good but expensive.
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Yep, you owe it to yourself and the rest of the family to have a meal at the Halfway house! The pies are incredible. The meals are fantastic! I have a tendency to put myself in a lot of pain from eating too much when I go there! Never had a bad meal. Awesome prime rib!
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We had great lunch and dinner from what we gather.
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Damn are you a fine quisine chef? That looks like it belongs in a fancy resteraunt :drool: lookin good..
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Damn are you a fine quisine chef? That looks like it belongs in a fancy resteraunt :drool: lookin good..
I didn't cook, my wife does. And that's a first time she ever cook oysters and clams.
That's a probably one of the reasons I married her :chuckle:
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Damn are you a fine quisine chef? That looks like it belongs in a fancy resteraunt :drool: lookin good..
I didn't cook, my wife does. And that's a first time she ever cook oysters and clams.
That's a probably one of the reasons I married her :chuckle:
Holy smokes dude! Smart move. That looks delicious!