I grew up on Harstine Island in the south sound. We had tons of geoducks at low tide. I would see holes where people dig for the geoducks every once in a while, but not very often because they were just too hard to catch.
Thanks. It looks like I need a boat to get there. It seems that all of these guys never tell you where exactly in the Puget Sound...just a big open sea.
HOLY CRAP I LIVE ON HARSTINE!!! We have the house that people always park on! That one right next to the entrance to the beach!! I dig there so you might see me there sometime! It’s nice seeing someone from my favorite place
We did this in Alaska in 1978-1979 on Kodiak Island, and we would take a scoop of sand really quick and then grab the neck to prevent it from going down deeper and then dig the sand out and I think it was a lot easier to dig them. We filled a large washtub piled high.
You were on Alone? What season? I’ve been binge watching your clamming videos. You are a very good instructor to people like me who want to go clamming. Liked and subscribed.
legal places to clam are listed in the site with the rules online wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/species/panopea-generosa#regs-seasons When you read up on the site and the number of people going after them... not going to be real hard to find them, a rather well documented harvest...
Geoducs do not have a foot or a "digger". It does not go deeper as you are digging it out. It just pulls the siphon down. Why so many people confused with razor clams?
واو عمل رائع وافكار جميله ولكن أريد هذا العمل لمجهود و الأشياء مثل هذا وموجوده في المحيط على سطح الماء وهي الان تحت الأرض مره عليه زمن ودفن عليها عداد طبقات رمال واو نها عمل شاق لديك انت و الابن ما اسمو بالتوفيق تحياتى إليكم .⚘⚘
Where abouts was this? North/ south of mount vernon/everett/seattle? I've only ever found 1 geoduck, out around edmonds when I was a kid. Also, I appreciate the judas priest reference...your son grew up with some decent music influences
Most of the public beaches that I go are in the hoods canal and up to Port Townsend areas. You will have to go on very low tides to find them. Follow the regulations to see which beaches are open. They all Have seasons.
unless the geoduck is showing its neck the hole can be as big as a golf ball. You still end up digging horse clams. Geoducks are found on most public beaches in the Puget Sound. Clallam County, Jefferson County are the only counties that I have gone looking for them.
Why don't you run a metal rod (12" nail, coat hanger, etc., etc. through the neck, parallel to the surface of the ground so the Geoduck can't retract his neck downwards 2 feet into the ground. Keep the end of that tail on the surface, if possible. Might also try one of those new fish grabbers that work like vice grips.
You just cut off it's neck. It doesn't work. A Geoduck can live upwards to 165 years old. The commercial geoduckers harvest geoducks at 2-3 years old, most less than a 1.5 lbs. Much, much smaller than the Geoducks the recreational clammer might run into. I get many 3 lbs+ and a couple 5 lbs+. Save the Geoduck. Peace, The Happy Geoduck.
If you use google and ask how to spell gooey duck This is how you spell it. However if you ask google how to spell geoduck clam. This is how you spell it. Try it there's two spellings.
I witnessed a 3 man crew using a high pressure water pump with a couple hundred feet of hose dig for them and they could pull one out in less than 2 mins, no digging just scooping the water and sand away from the hole with a snow shovel while one guy used the water wand to dig the hole.
I never tried to harvest geoduck before. I want to try this year to see if I can get one. I know the fort flagger open in August, but I don’t know if we can dig in fort townsen. Please let me know if you have any information. I don’t want to drive 4 hrs there if not allowed . Thanks
Imagine minding your business for 100 years buried 2ft in the sand only for a bunch humans to suddenly go like "okay... today I'm down here looking to see about digging geoduck"... the insanity of the human species is real.
