Giant Clam Geoduck Digging
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The work is hard but the reward is huge. Once or twice a year we hit the beach for our local delicacies (the Geoduck) 4 ft under. Some days we hit gold and
Most others we walk away with a few.
Next year I will bring a tripod.
Next I am off to the open ocean to target big toothy flat fish (Halibut)
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Nice vid! I used to purchase the seashells only (minus the meat) from my good friend Tom Rice across the Sound in Port Gamble, WA.
Wow that's great video! Where is that place?
Thanks Cody. Vashon Island
When is the season
Geoduck is either spelled wrong or pronounced wrong.!!!???
That looks like fun. All the geoducks I’ve seen are in hard clay. That looks like a good time and a work out.
Ya really rewarding and back breaking at the same time haha
Божественная красота,сказачное видео.Спасибо за красоту.Удачи.
Thanks much for your kind words
What’s the point of digging that big circle around the hole beside destroying the grass for no reason?
To get the clam of course. We are digging in a very unstable sandy mud. You have to dig an cone so the hole doesn’t cave in to much. Once you start digging you can’t stop or else the hole would not be a hole anymore.
So beautiful and peaceful
Work wouldn't be hard at all if you were using the proper tools for this.
What do you suggest? I’m always willing to learn something new.
@@NorthwestCatch A clam gun would probably be the best tool for this. Takes about 60 seconds to get him up.
@@evershawn ehhh yes and no... You've got the right idea but it needs to scale UP big time! The two problems are size and depth. A geoduck is like 10x the size of any other "normal" clam, so to use a gun it needs to be a _much_ larger diameter than even the largest of commercial clam guns available so as you don't kill them by breaking the shell or worse end up slicing off the neck and possibly losing that good size chunk of meat into "the abyss" as the tide runs in. The other problem is geoducks can end up MUCH deeper than most other common clams, talking up to 2-3 times as deep as razor clams! We had our own geoduck gun made, it's just a big stainless tube with handles welded on the sides, made from a thin rolled up steel sheet and welded at the seam, about 26" wide and 4' tall, with an open top. Basically a just a "caisson" that you rock/wiggle into the beach (using a 2x4 that slides through the handle loops) around the geoduck. 'Just' big enough your shoulders can STILL fit inside all the way to use a small plastic 1/2 Gal bucket near the end if needed when you can't get the shovels in far enough. But at least the sand around the hole can't collapse. "How deep" can these things go? I'm 6' tall and my waist was on the top of the tube and even my long monkey arms can sometimes BARELY get a grip on the top of the shell... You'll still have to deal with the water vacuum/suction to get the geoduck out, which is also why the clam gun won't work as intended, that's a ton of wet sand to try pulling out of a vacuum.
You can call it a gooey duck all day long but I know a wild pecker when I see one!
Haha that is a good one.
Your content is great, keep it coming. Just came across your videos and have been enjoying them all. Question for you, what is the "moat" for that you dig around your neck before you guys really start digging in? Does it channel some of the water away and keep your hole from filling up? Keep up the cool content, I just subscribed.
Great content NW Catch. If you'd be interested, always looking for an extra back.
Excellent video, thanks
Thank you for tuning in Gary.
@@NorthwestCatch we had a great day getting geoducks afterwarching your video
@@CalicoJackxx how cool is that. We live in a cool place. Thanks again for watching
Can you share the location? Where in Vashon island?
South end
Can I ask where abouts on Vashon Island. Nice
Very nice 👍
Keep growing full support ❤️❤️
Thank you
Lots of work, not easy to limit out. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you. Xu
Awesome video. Question is it private property?? thx in advance
No not private property. Check
Out public clam beaches then click on the map to see boat in only Dnr beaches. Thanks for watching