Fick handed me a “clam gun;” the tool of choice for beginners learning the ropes of clam digging. It was a hard plastic tube, with a covered top that has a handle built into it, plus there is a small ...

More than half-a-million people will converge along the Washington coast during the fall, winter and spring in search of a bountiful population of razor clams. On days when digging is open, thousands ...

THIS MUST BE the best autumn weather in years. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, it did with the opening of razor clam season!

Now that the cold weather has arrived, it’s clam chowder season. The "Oregon Field Guide" team was at the coast earlier this year filming Newport-based clamming expert Bill Lackner for our story on ...

Washington offers many kinds of outdoor fun, and one activity topping the list this time of year is razor-clam digging along coastal beaches. There is something mystical about this iconic Pacific ...

"You can't dig clams in any month that doesn't have an R in it," the woman said with absolute authority and confidence. We stood there face-to-face and I had a peck basket filled with soft-shelled ...

Shellfish managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife are expected to announce the start of the 2025-26 coastal razor clam season, depending on safe test results for the marine toxin ...

DESPITE GOOD WEATHER and tides for two of three recent days of digging at Kalaloch, razor clam diggers still struggled to find clams. Results progressively improved during the President’s Day Weekend ...

OLYMPIA — Razor clam digging at Mocrocks and Copalis beaches will be open for the first weekend of March. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish managers said digging reopens at ...