Minus tides...Are you digging Horse clams for crab bait?

Anybody crab off their kayak?  Better dig the best crab bait going..I've been stocking up on these minus tides.. Good luck

I'm going to be giving it a good try this year.   What does a Horse Clam look like?

Pete

I'm going to be giving it a good try this year.   What does a Horse Clam look like?

Pete

like a smaller version of a geoduck

Went out on sunday and monday in Netarts - between it being a negative tide and Memorial day weekend, it was a total zoo.  We were targeting cockles and softshells - I have so many clams after two days of digging that I may just use the softshells for bait.

Never thought of using gapers as crab bait, but I guess it would work in a pinch (haha).  So much work to get the gapers, and the daily limit is 12.  I've just been eating the ones I dig up.

Salmon carcasses also make great bait. I save them in the freezer. Early in the season if I don't have any the local asian supermarket usually has them for $1-$2. I also soak a few small sponges in herring oil and put it in with the salmon.

Z

I like the idea of soaking sponges with oil, I will do that in my shrimp traps as well.
 I just go down to the local fillet station and fetch up a few fresh carcasses when needed.
 I also have a couple of old ones in the freezer for those days when no bodies are around to be snatched.

Thanks for posting pics bsteves...I experimented last year...salmon carcasses, shad, turkey legs, chicken, rockfish carcasses....Crabbed every open day for 7 weeks in area 6 and 7N..WA
 Gapers or Horseclams always got the biggest hardshell crabs where I live... Olypen and Birch Bay...
Dug 7 more today and will set my pots just outside where I dug in 15-20 ft of water..
By the way butters and cockles work too...
Use them for bait or cook them for dinner

Jigmaster, are you and Hobuck the same person.  Could you do me a favor and keep it to one handle?  Thanks.

-Allen

OK Allen, My Psychiatrist says I have multiple personalities LOL... I'm also known as "12packabs"...
.Just checking to see if you were on your toes ...
 I'll stick with Jigmaster cause I fish with jigs.... Dungeness Stingers mainly...