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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (83885)	7/11/2012 8:36:53 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104157

The Pismo clam seemed to stop at Santa Cruz. Before the sea otter, clams had to be 5 inches and I have dug them that were 7/8 inches with moss on them. My grandparents lived in San Louis Obispo and clam digging was the favorite thing in the whole world for me to do. They would put certain areas of the beach off limits for years., so the clams got huge. I got limits at San Silva beach and Watsonville up until about 1970. Last time I went to pismo beach there were only tiny clams hugging the beach shore. The size limit is now 3.5 inches and I found none out deep and no big ones. We would use a ptich fork at low tide (minus) as far out as we could go (up to our chest) watching the waves. When we hit one we would leave our fork on it and put out foot in the sand digging down while watching for big waves. Once we located the clam, we would leave our foot on it until we got a break in the waves and then reach down and pull it out. Then we would try and get the clam to "hang on the measure". Often we would try and try to get it to hang and just miss. One fork's measuring piece was always a tad better at getting clams to hang than others-g. We would take them home (10 weighed 25 lbs) and grind them up putting cracker meal and egg? in them and then put them back in the shell and bake them. We ate them with lemon and they were so good.