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ajv003

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 posted 02/06/2012 07:25 PM  
Tried this last year w/o any success.

Anyone know of a good spot to dig steamer clams on the southshore in the Babylon area?
 
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 posted 02/06/2012 07:33 PM  
ajv003 wrote:
Tried this last year w/o any success.

Anyone know of a good spot to dig steamer clams on the southshore in the Babylon area?


Good luck getting someone to tell you that. You're more likely to find someone who will lend you their wife. Shades

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plugmeister

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 posted 02/06/2012 07:51 PM  
Is there a local shellfish commission? They at least can tell you what areas are open. They might have a map. I was at a really good spot yesterday. One guy had a full bag of clams.
 
ajv003

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 posted 02/06/2012 07:52 PM  
MakoMike wrote:


Good luck getting someone to tell you that. You're more likely to find someone who will lend you their wife. Shades


Are they that hard to find nowadays?
 
Scott1280


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 posted 02/06/2012 07:53 PM  
My question is what's the best way to dig for them? I know where I can find them by me, but I never really had any success digging for them. If I try to dig down I have usually smashed them. Much better success raking the sand and finding hard shell clams in the top 3" than I ever did digging for steamers in the mud. Tips? Suggestions?

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ajv003

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 posted 02/06/2012 07:56 PM  
Plunger

Scott1280 wrote:
My question is what's the best way to dig for them? I know where I can find them by me, but I never really had any success digging for them. If I try to dig down I have usually smashed them. Much better success raking the sand and finding hard shell clams in the top 3" than I ever did digging for steamers in the mud. Tips? Suggestions?


As a kid I used a plunger........worked it up and down, would create a nice hole then I would just reach down and pull them out of the sides of the hole.

Where are you finding them?
 
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 posted 02/06/2012 08:03 PM  
We use to just dig them by hand

its a  tiger shark A WHAAT

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treemanjb

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 posted 02/06/2012 08:05 PM  
steamers

Go with the plunger method. J.B.
 
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 posted 02/06/2012 08:10 PM  
Steamers

What's the best method of getting the sand out?
 
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 posted 02/06/2012 08:12 PM  
Letting them sit in water will get the sand out

its a  tiger shark A WHAAT

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 posted 02/06/2012 08:32 PM  
Scott1280 wrote:
My question is what's the best way to dig for them? I know where I can find them by me, but I never really had any success digging for them. If I try to dig down I have usually smashed them. Much better success raking the sand and finding hard shell clams in the top 3" than I ever did digging for steamers in the mud. Tips? Suggestions?


Steamer rake. Not a "normal" clam rake. It has long thin sharp tines offset at a 90 degree angle to the handle. Tines should be at least 6 inches long. The ones I have were made from a pitch fork. They heated the tines and bent then to the proper angle.

The Plunger works but is very slow to get any decent amount of clams.

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ajv003

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 posted 02/06/2012 08:54 PM  
Location

Still no suggestions on a location though........
 
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 posted 02/06/2012 09:12 PM  
MakoMike wrote:
ajv003 wrote:
Tried this last year w/o any success.

Anyone know of a good spot to dig steamer clams on the southshore in the Babylon area?


Good luck getting someone to tell you that. You're more likely to find someone who will lend you their wife. Shades


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capt13


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 posted 02/06/2012 09:49 PM  
I use a pitch fork .... take big bites with it. Yes, you will break a few, but you should end up getting plenty un-broken as well .....

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 posted 02/06/2012 10:03 PM  
I like the plunger. Make one long handled plunger to blast them out. Take a wire headed crab net and remove the net. Replace it with small mesh chicken wire, and bend a slight curve in the head. Take a shrimp basket and put it in an inner tube. Put on a pair of waders, tether the basked to yourself, and then find an area full of steamer holes and go to town with the plunger. Let the tide clear away the turbid water and then use your chicken wire scoop to pick up the steamers you blasted out.

Best way I've found.

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