We all woke up on a high from our success the night before.
We were ready to tackle crabbing during the day and then clamming on the
nighttime high tide. The weather woke up too with a cold misty breeze blowing
in from the Pacific with clouds threatening to bring more than mist. Research
rewarded us with a little motel on the bay that rented crab pots complete with
bait to drop from their docks. But we had a secret weapon – we supplemented our
bait sacks with the entrails from the clam catch.
“Yum” said the crabs!
We huddled up on the leeward side of a docked boat, dropped
our two crab pots and waited the 15 minutes instructed by another Youtube video
and boom, crabs in the pots. Some were too small so we had to throw them back,
but in a little over an hour we were frozen and happy with our five keepers.
There were another couple groups of hardy crabbers that stood in awe of our
catch as they had been at it much longer than us, but were only getting little
crabs. We got the BIG ones baby!
We got home in time to don additional clothes for the
evening clamming and load on the rain gear because the storm was on shore.
Since our only experience with clamming resulted in a quick limit we figured
the same would happen again, but our luck had run out. With a steady rain
pounding on the sand it was impossible to see the tell tale burp hole a digging
clam leaves. So I’m not sure if that is
what saved the clams or they wised up to all the people digging the previous
night, but they were winning this night. We came home with only an additional 5
clams.
We ate really well that night, steamed crab and sautéed clam
linguini with enough clams in the freezer to see us through at least another
five meals.
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