Experience: "Digging for Dinner"

The tide is out. You have a spade in one hand and a bucket in the other. That's pretty much all you need to go clamming on Prince Edward Island. But knowing the best places to go digging and where to look once you get there is much more of a challenge so we've solved that problem for you. Ron Perry has been digging clams since he was little boy. He's full of stories and will talk your ear off as he helps you bring back a "feed" of clams.

You'll head out to the sandbar just offshore and the first thing he'll tell you is there are several kinds of clams to be found in the flats around Prince Edward Island.....soft-shelled clams, known around here as squirt clams because of the way they squirt water from their shells when you're trying to dig them; quahaugs which are little bit bigger than the soft-shelled clams and bar clams which are the biggest of the clams. There's also razor clams which look a lot like the old time shaving razors from which they get their name.

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[ShmooyShmoo]

yum YUMS!

[northernpike56]

I show how I dig the soft-shelled clam in my flounder fishing video, they make great flounder bait...They're excellent deep fried, and steamed like in this video...We also call them pissers :-)