Easy limits for these lifelong friends Mrs. fp and Diane. These beauties dug'em up good and of course my bride had to also dig mine.

fp

There were lotsa clams out there, but the short interval between surges meant you had to be fairly quick between the waves washing upbeach.

Team eyeFISH crew walked away with nice limits.

Food coma definitely setting in now.

Pics later

Team eyeFISH North Beach clam report:

What a beautiful February afternoon to hit the beach. Obviously, lotsa other folks had the same idea.



There were also definitely lotsa clams, but if limits were gonna happen, you had to be pretty quick about spotting and marking them between surges....







Here's LMWS patiently waiting out the next draw...



And following it out to the Promised Land to top off her limit....



GOTCHA!



That's the way you do it... money for nuthin' and your clams for free!



Wrappin' in up as the sun goes down...



GLORY!





Till next time.... FAREWELL.

Yup, Easy limits at Roosevelt. Big clams, great shows. Happy to be digging up there. About darn time.

Weather update...

Sunday, 10:35 a.m.....Central Park

39 degrees, rain.....that combination makes for cold, cold, cold.....dress warm......can always take off if too warm.

Good luck, on the digging......

Nice pics Doc, you and your ex made some beautiful Girls.

Yep.... the only GOOD thing I scored outta the whole twenty year marriage. Really warms the heart when they all return home to fish with the old man on his b'day weekend

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?p=11229289#post11229289

Not enough good Fathers as you.

Excellent how-to vid from shellfish manager Dan Ayres at WDFW...

The upcoming dig at Mocrocks is scheduled on the following dates and evening low tides:
•March 5, Saturday, 3:53 p.m.; 0.3 feet; Mocrocks
•March 6, Sunday, 4:40 p.m.; -0.2 feet; Mocrocks
•March 7, Monday, 5:23 p.m.; -0.5 feet; Mocrocks
•March 8, Tuesday, 6:05 p.m.; -0.6 feet; Mocrocks

fp

Sat
SE wind 15 to 25 kt...becoming S 20 to 30 kt. Wind waves 3 to 5 ft...building to 4 to 6 ft. W swell 14 ft.

GAWD I hope that forecast gets downgraded in the next 5 days

Sat
S wind 15 to 25 kt. Wind waves 3 to 5 ft. SW swell 17 ft.
Sun
S wind 15 to 25 kt. Wind waves 3 to 5 ft. SW swell 17 ft.

Beautiful sunny skies, hardly any wind!

it sucked...I got mine but a lot of people said screw it and started to leave... water wouldn't stay out long enough to pound..

This.


Except I got exactly 1. Haven't struggled like that in a decade. Too much swell against not enough tide. Bummer because the weather was pretty good other than a little breezy.

Apart from the company, the CCA Banquet was way more fun!

wish we coulda attended this year.

fp

Left Moclips at about 3:00 brown scum was so thick even if there had been any shows you couldn't see them. Went a few clicks south and ended up with a quick but had to work for limit. Lots of emty bags but digger in the know all got the job done. Wonder about the brown/green scum thing, I had never seen it that thick before and why the huge difference between Moclips and ROOSEVELT less than 2 miles away? Very good quality clams though

Pure nutriment for the filter feeders... good for healthier, fatter clams down the road.

....and we can also hope that it is indicative of near shore feed conditions for the copepods, etc that are critical to nutritional needs of out-migrating salmon and steelhead smolts