Wow, clamming too?! Every time you post a video, I'm again reminded of how glad I am to have found your channel. Fingers crossed for a catch, clean, and cook video. I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving. Much love from New York.

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

I had a feeling I would hear from you! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Thank you for the continued support; I'm glad you found my channel too. 😊 I've already had other comments requesting a video on how to clean and cook clams, so I will plan for that. Cheers!

@bajra79

4 жыл бұрын

i concur, i'd love to see a clean and cook video

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

@@bajra79 Thanks Albert, I will plan for that! I just need to wait for the next time there is a low tide and I can make it out to the coast again. I hope fairly soon. It would be fun to get some more clams (including other species like softshells, cockles, etc.) and include information on how to clean and cook them.

Great video. Love clamming.

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good to see you, brother!!! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!!! GREAT video!!! I almost got caught out in the incoming tide back in 1990. I was somewhere in northern California. Pretty scary run to the break Wall.

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

Happy (late) Thanksgiving to you too! I hope you had a good one! Yep, tides can come in fast and things can get uncomfortable pretty quickly... Thanks for checking in.

@mehchocolate1257

3 жыл бұрын

@@WesternEclectic where is the pacific northwest coast anyway?

@WesternEclectic

3 жыл бұрын

@@mehchocolate1257 I'm in Oregon, but I think clamming is fairly similar along the Washington and Oregon coasts.

Them were great excuses! Thanks for the video

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

Haha; thanks for checking in. The secret is to give lots of excuses all at once, so the odds will be that at least one of them will seem valid...

Great stuff mate. Would of been even better to see you clean and cook the big fella but still ok video

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! My wife said the same thing, "Why didn't you show how to clean them?" Maybe in a future video...

@gus473

4 жыл бұрын

@@WesternEclectic Hope so! That's a big boy, for certain! 😋

It’s clamming. It’s not a extreme sport.

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's true. But it can still be a bit dangerous if someone is careless and not paying attention to the incoming tide or the surf...

Coastal Foraging With Craig Evans uses salt on the holes to get the clams to come out of the sand. Is that something that can be tried there or is it illegal to do so?

@WesternEclectic

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I hadn't heard of using salt. I'm not sure about the legality (although the water is already plenty salty, so a little more probably wouldn't hurt anything!). I have a feeling it might not be effective on gaper clams: They tend to be quite deep (the one I dug in this video was around two feet down), so even if they were to try to come out of the sand on their own, it would take a long time. I guess for now I'll keep doing it the hard way! 😊