Yeah, that pond’s okay, but it’s mostly raked out,” the guy at Coop’s Bait & Tackle was telling me. He was right: a few days earlier, I had been standing in nearby Sengekontacket Pond, a tidal pond on ...

With a rake in one hand and a cooler bag in the other, I climbed out of a kayak ready to go clamming for the first time. I was with 18 others, all ready to rake and probe the sandbars off the warm ...

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After taking the first bite of the delicious razor clam, pulled from the beach along Deep Creek that very day, dredged in flour, egg and crackers and deep-fried to perfection, I was dumbfounded that I ...

Ah, to savor the salty, sweet, delicate juices of a hard-shell clam. Served raw on the half-shell, baked, fried, chowdered or even in spaghetti sauce, this is the shellfish most familiar to Long ...

6am Monday morning the water is smooth as glass. The cold night has been replaced by the chill of early morning as we cruise across the Great Egg Bay on my buddy's seventeen foot Carolina skiff. He ...

Lawmakers in the three towns on the Great South Bay are considering new restrictions on clamming in local waters, drawing on the recommendations of a recent Suffolk County report that found the bay's ...

BRINNON — The low number of clams on the Point Whitney tidelands means the area won’t be opened for sport clamming in March. But a site just south of it could open in March, a month earlier than usual ...

Technicians surveyed the beaches at Clam Gulch and Nilnilchik this spring, hoping to find abundant enough populations of razor clams to open the beaches back up to clammers. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) The ...