Talking about digging for clams. One joy of the Southern Ocean and no doubt many other places is digging or catching blue swimmer crabs.

I have not done this for a long time but either you go out in daylight in low tide and look for crabby spots and use a point on your meshed fork to dig them out. Or more productive is to go out at higher tide with a spotlight or water light on a pole and try to catch them swimming in the water. Into the meshed fork and up into a bucket or tub floating behind you.

Connecting the spotlight to the 12v battery

in the salt water and disconnecting is also always fun too.

Cooking is very simple. Boiling salted water. Drop the blue crabs in, when they are red out they come and break them open to eat. They can also be cooked in chilli stir fries etc which penetrates the shell.

The place I used to go crabbing is near an army artillery testing range. They fire the shells in the tidal flats and then examine or recover the shells from the mud. Some adventurous souls even go crabbing there

but it is a high security area.

Must go blue swmmer crabbing again one day soon.

PS Why talk about all this on a HUNTING forum. Well I regard the fruits of the wild as part of hunting. Mushrooms and duck and rabbit or hare or venison. Crabs or fish or berries. Ultimately all hunting should revolve around eating the game we take even if we primary hunt for a trophy.