The weather finally cooperated for consecutive days and the Eureka boats took full advantage. Most of the angling effort was on the Pacific halibut grounds but quite a few boats made the trip south to Cape Mendocino. While the halibut bite isn’t wide open, most of the charter boats are putting clients into limits. It […]
razor clams
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Dig Those Razor Clams
The other day my imaginary friend said, “Your little stories there in the back pages of the local weekly … They’re OK.” “Just OK?” I asked. “Yeah. They’re too much like beachcomber pornography. You strut onto the beach, instantly presented with fantastic big squids. And your threesome with the lancetfish and spiny dogfish was hot […]
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Clamming: A Photo Essay by Mark Larson
Our recent very high king tides also brought some very low tides to the North Coast – and low tides this time of year mean fans of razor clams head to Clam Beach south of Trinidad. My first introduction as a child to eating seafood was my Aunt Sara’s clam chowder, made with razor clams […]
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Return of Siliqua patula
Last week, anytime between Tuesday and Saturday, if you’d wandered over to Clam Beach in the early morning you might have felt as if you’d also wandered back in time. The shoreline teemed with clam diggers — a spread-out crowd of them near the Little River Beach parking area and others down near the Clam […]