South Hood-South Sound TWO STEP (steamer clams, oysters, dig and cook)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Although only 30 minutes apart the tides in deep southern Puget Sound can run two hours behind the tides of southern Hood Canal. This allows for a nice day of shellfishing in two radically different (yet highly productive) locations! Join me, and maybe you'll even learn a dance move or two! #pugetsound #hoodcanal
Dig and cook! That was a fun video
Hey Jordan! Thanks a ton! I hope you're enjoying your high sea adventures!
Those Steamers clams looked great, I think I'd sink in that mud though! 😆. Great video Blake.
Thanks Jerry! Yeah, I was lucky to come home with two boots!
Right on, great Video! Cut myself shucking oysters for New Years and it got nasty! 3 mos later it finally healed and left a scar.
Oh wow. I appreciate the precautionary tale! I've cut myself on oysters so many times. But I'll watch myself a bit more in the future. Maybe invest in a second glove... Ha ha!
Thanks for the video.
You're welcome David! Thanks for watching and the kind words.
Another fun and entertaining episode of WFQ. Again, as always, thanks for taking us along. Beautiful PNW day.
Thanks a ton Grant! Much appreciated. It was a little windy. But this was early April, so beautiful day!
As I like to day, It isn't a real project until you bleed for it." In Oregon, there is no legal take of "wild" oysters. Our native oyster is endangered and anything that isn't the native is commercially grown. The only oyster I've had was a deep fried one and it was like eating hot snot. I still want to try a fresh one, though.
Thanks for keeping in that camera fall. I got a good chuckle out of it. We've all been there, where we set something up to keep it out of the mud but the wind has different plans.
Sorry I'm getting a bit wordy, but this episode was just so engaging. That South Sound Prairie looks a lot like Willamette Valley Oaken Savanna. We're in a similar situation where we have just tiny fractions of it as well.
I always enjoy your wordy (or brief, both good!) posts Jarom! And appreciate feedback about the episode being engaging. I can replicate that a bit more.
I did not know that about Oregon. Bummer! Puget Sound, and especially Hood Canal, is very oyster rich. Only 18 a day. But hey a dozen will run you $10, so not to bad.
They are an acquired taste for sure... They actually have really different flavors. Some people oyster taste like cheese tasting. That said I also don't really care for like a breaded fried oyster. I enjoy them slurped, baked w/bacon, in a stew, and in a "fry"/hashed. My favorite way to eat an oyster tho, is smoked!
Right on!! I thought my group were the only ones doing the "two step" - love being able to take home multiple species. Thanks for the tour of the scenery as well - I had no clue Johns Creek was so interesting... thanks for the great video as always 👍🏼
Thanks a ton! I really appreciate it. Gotta love harvesting multiple species!
That was a sexy dance at the beginning in those cowboy boots! Haha 🤟🏻😆
Thank you Captain Connor! It's no secret why almost 4% of WA Fish Quest viewers are female!
@@WAFishQuest 😜😆🙏🏻
Wunderbar! Actually, I was just at Eagle Creek, so you know what that means. Another great video!
I lovvvve Eagle Creek. Oysters, oysters, and more oysters!
Makes me kind a want to try clams, haha, I haven't ever really been a fan but they might be O.K.
Thanks Mike! I like em. But I'm a pretty shellfish guy.
Looks good!
Thank you Blake! (Uh, I mean you, not me).
Good thing you saved the camera. That looked like a $500 nose dive.
Thanks! I was really glad to finish the shoot. The camera did end up crapping out my next trip... But the good news is it was only about a $100 camera.
Such a good episode! We do this with razors since we live in Central washington. Razors then catch the hood canal tide for clams and oysters..makes for a long trip but its worth it!
Whoa... Three step! Thanks J-Swizzy! I will almost certainly steal this idea...
After steaming steamer clams I like to remove clams from shell and then put deshelled clams in the refrigerator for couple hours to chill them. I then mix Pride Of The Northwest batter mix with milk and coat the deshelled steamer clams in batter and fry about five at a time in half inch to an inch deep of olive oil in a small saucepan on medium heat until gold brown.
Good to know! Thanks!
I always thought it would be great to get a Canal open from Hood to South Sound. It would be an Epic camping trip.
Yeah it would!
Thanks Blake. I like the history you put into your video adventures. I have shirts like yours, too.
Thanks Toni! I super appreciate it!
I liked this episode so much that I’m now craving Clam Linguini!
Ha ha, thanks David! Knowing steamer clams are a favorite of your's I was hoping you'd enjoy it!
@@WAFishQuest Most definitely. BTW, I’m back from from my trip to the Southwest and ready for some local adventures! 😎
Sure made me hungry looking at those steamer's.
Thank you Steve! I am very lucky to have such a great resource a short drive away!
The mouth of John’s Creek is an excellent spot to fly fish for chum. Future episode?? 👀
Good idea Troy! I've never caught a chum on a fly. That'd be bonkers!
Wonderful time! Thanks for this. As for the dancing, don't give up your day job. Or any job.
Thank you Brian! I hope you appreciated that I didn't even pull my pant legs over my boots!
That does it, time to get my Washington fish license, I didn't even know there were places where you could harvest oysters still, I love raking up the clams in the mud flat, but the oyster sure look good especially fresh!
If you did that and wanted to hit up Hood Canal, could do a collab! Hood Canal is covered in oysters. Like some areas are just thousands upon thousands at a -1.0 or lower tide. (This video was filmed on a -0.1).
Entertaining as always Blake, my wife has oyster bed battle scars, and my oldest daughter fell down into them our last trip and earned herself some scars. I've managed to avoid getting torn up, bit I'm sure it will happen soon enough.
Thank you Brad! Those oysters have a way of defending themselves somehow...
4 prong wood rake from ace hardware is best rake to use for gathering steamer clams.
Thanks for the tip!
Idea for an episode: Box Crabs---- heard of 'em?
I have not, but I'm all ears!
@@WAFishQuest I want and deserve no credit at all, I've never seen one and bet that you have a different name for the same crab: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_box_crab