WA (Shell)fish Quest EP 15: Geoduck
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- Digging geoduck in northern Hood Canal! Memorial Day Sunday 2013. Geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) has became highly sought after in recent years! However, Washingtonians have prized the mighty duck for a long, long time.
Eating shellfish contaminated with marine biotoxin can kill you! Cooking or freezing does NOT destroy the biotoxins in shellfish. Important safety information below. Know before you dig!:
Recreational shellfish open beaches/closed beaches clickable maps:
www.doh.wa.gov/shellfishsafety.htm
Recreational shellfish beach marine biotoxin closures table:
ww4.doh.wa.gov/...
WA Marine Biotoxin hotline: 1-800-562-5632
WA Fish and Wildlife shellfish seasons & regulations by beach:
www.wdfw.wa.gov...
This is amazing Blake you’re Awesome you’re amazing I am so happy that I enjoy your videos Thank you so much🙂
I absolutely love your videos!
Thank you so much for the kind words! Super appreciate it!
Don't know. May try razor clams first. Nice video, thank you and your Mom. She has an eye for them.
Thank you Bill! Appreciate it!
Wow - that's a lot of work to dig those up but well worth it.
It's great exercise, that's for sure!
That looks like a lot of work! Nice seeing my sister wonder through. She should have been digging her spot too!
I can’t believe I missed this video I thought I seen all of your wish you had time to make more you do excellent work. Thank you for sharing
Great video, and very informative. I have been surfing watching videos on geoducks and razors here in Washington, yours is my favorite to date. Keep up the good work.
Something else I've yet to try. Shellfish and heavily restricted around BC. The DFO doesn't have the budget to test many areas for bio toxins so they just stay closed to error on the side of caution. Looks like lots of work but rewarding I bet!
If you came down in May or June when there was a -2.4 or better I could put you on some. I got my honey holes!
@@WAFishQuest Cool man, if the boarders ever open up I'll get on that!
Everyone loves a geoduck video too!
All I can say is that I wish we had watched this before we tried it last year. We eventually got one, but it was pretty comical. We were literally covered in mud from head to toe and totally soaked too. We went back to my friend's house and his wife wouldn't let us back into the house until we turned the garden hose on each other. Great video.
thanks Corbfisher! I have been there! It's an amazing amount of dirty work! Ha ha!
Another great episode! That geoduck is HUGE! The song worked out perfectly for that scene. Looking forward to "Fog Rolling In" at Boston Harbor! Great job~j
Great video Blake! 10 out of 10.
Thanks a ton again Jason! It really made the show!
I just read about people using hydraulic pumps to harvest clams. Have you heard of this? Or tried it? Seems like it would work wonders for geoduck, but who knows...
Yeah, that's what the commercial harvesters use. I think in the regs it says something like "mechanical pumps" or something like that can't be used. Not sure if that rules em out or not!
I really like your show
And would like to try diging for geoduck
Just wondering if you can tell where's this place
Thanks
Where can I buy that geoduck in wa ?
nice one! so are you digging with the post hole digger next to where the clam is, or right on top of it??
Congrats on your harvest even though you exaggerate the length of the "foot" of the clam. The great eating the foot as sashimi and making soup from the body after the guts are removed.
Definitely do a cooking vid dude! You do some good fishing there in Washington!
That's one serious dig WFQ! Thankfully the dig over here is a lot easier :) Never dug out a clam that size though (Nice one B!). Filled a large bucket with Clams, Scallops, Brown crabs, & sea cabbage. My family & friends fed well that day..lol! BFN.
Nice duck dude! Did you say you cooked the duck about 1min in boiling water? If so that is too long. the fore-skin will come off in 10-15seconds, any longer and it may taste like rubber.
You know what! Geoduck always make me think of something. But they are tasty :)
Great question! I forgot to say... I was probably about two inches off to the size. You might have been able to tell I dinged the top its siphon, so maybe 2.5 next time, ha ha! :)
Thanks a ton! I'll be keeping my eyes out for holiday sales this year for the gopros!
So cool! subscribed - thank you!
Thanks Peter! Nothing like the occassional harvest from the sea's bounty!! :)
Great video, great channel.
Bo Ttorff thanks a ton Bo!!
Hi Blake, have you ever been to duckabush for geoducks? I haven't ever been there but planning to take a trip there with the family soon and I was just wondering how eAsily accessible it is to get to the digging sites. I googled mapped it and went to the Washington state department of fish. They gave directions there but sounds a bit far from parking. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
I haven't dug Duckabush, want to though! My recommendation would be stopping by the Geoduck Tavern (it's also a restaurantt). Very cool local tavern- really good burgers, and they do an annual geoduck derby (heaviest duck wins). At any rate, they should be able to give you some advice on public access. I think they might have diggable Duckabush shorefront right by the tavern.
I dug for G-Ducks at Duckabush about 8yrs. ago and we ending up with 2 and a bunch of horse clams on a -3 tide. As i remember it is a long haul from the parking lot or off the highway overpass about 3/4-1mile to the beach. Since i bought a boat now i dig geoducks at beaches with boat-only access(less people,better chance to limit out)
more Washington fish quest!
very entertaining! good work
Also, we'll have to do one of these around your neck of the woods some time!
At any rate! That IS disgusting!! LOL
Good job on another great video!! :D
Ha ha, yep! The only different is if eggs were buried that deep, I'd let em rot! :)
can you do videos on salmon
Yo do one on purple varnish clams
A caterpillar digger will work great
thanks so much awesome vid!
Love your watch, btw
I catch clams that size all the time to use to catch starrys and sole.
Can I ask what's the name of the beach? Thanks in advance
This is Dosewallips State Park... I must say, digging has gotten tougher in recent years due ot increased pressure. Duckbuck, right by it, has geoduck too. But with both of them now, it's no guarantee (but hey, I still go back every year). thanks for watching!
I appreciate the advice Lai!
Thank you for the information. Will try it tomorrow! :)
cool video. That's a whole lot of work though.
It's either that or pay $15-20 a lb. in the fish markets at Seattle
Absolutely right. 30 to 35 per lb on the east coast. Cheers
Did he say "ikspecially"?
its a easter egg hunt for goeducks
Thanks Matt!
Considering how grossed out she was by it, I think I'm going to be allll right!
Thanks OneShot!
Thanks a ton!
nice... a lot of work to do.. lol
Thanks a ton!!
6:51 nice watch...
me too !!
2 inches of to the "side," I meant!
from what i know of English it's not a Goey duck it's a G E O Duck..
Thanks! That is how it's spelled. There are some stories about why it's pronounced differently. It's probably deprived from an old Nisqually tribal nation word meaning dig deep.
Hear hear!
ha ha, thanks!
Thats way too much work for just one geoduck.
It is a ton of work! No argument there! It's fun work though...
+Bill Peterson You must be rich or a lazy sob. Geoduck can cost you $15-30 per lb. here in the Seattle area. Like hell i will pay that much when i can dig them myself for free. That one clam was a 3-4lb.
you know larry hartley
this video could have been 3 minutes long
I WASH MINE IN HOT TAP WATE N SKIN JUST SLIDES OFF!
Thanks for the hot tip, Dale!