Fick handed me a “clam gun;” the tool of choice for beginners learning the ropes of clam digging. It was a hard plastic tube, with a covered top that has a handle built into it, plus there is ...

Each year, 100,000 people wake up clamoring to dig in the sand for razor clams. They pull on waders, reach for their clam guns and head to a 58-mile stretch of coastal Washington that extends from ...

Clam-digging on the Oregon Coast in search of sand-to-table dining. July 8, 2011. ... which makes clamming easier if you have a shrimp gun — like a clam gun, but smaller.

Clam digging satisfies that primeval urge to go out into nature and find free food. And inveterate Washington state clam diggers admit they compete to get their daily limit of 15 clams.

FAIRBANKS — I have a new favorite thing to do in Alaska — clam digging. Never mind that I have yet to even sample one of the 68 razor clams we dug up on the Kenai Peninsula last week. After ...

It’s a place where thousands of people flock to dig hundreds of thousands of razor clams each year. "There’s a clam hole right there, Grant," noted Fick. He pointed to a small, ...

With a bucket in one hand and a clam gun in the other, Day scanned the vast silver sand beach that stretches 21 miles along the peninsula. When she didn’t see any, she started stomping.

By the way, those tubes—sometimes called clam guns—are the easiest way to get started. Just center the tube over a show and work it several inches down into the sand to ... The limit is 15 clams a day ...

With our razor-clam “gun” — actually a cylindrical clam-digging tube with a handle at one end, not a firearm — we quickly made our way down to the edge of the surf with hundreds of other ...

Each year, 100,000 people wake up clamoring to dig in the sand for razor clams. They pull on waders, reach for their clam guns and head to a 58-mile stretch of coastal Washington that extends from ...

Each year, 100,000 people wake up clamoring to dig in the sand for razor clams along a stretch of Washington states beach. They pull on waders, reach for their clam guns and head to a 58-mile ...