You need a clam shovel, a license and a teacher. I am going down and would be glad to meet you and do some tutoring. I think we will be digging at Iron Springs.

I don’t know anything about digging those quahogs or whatever it is you have on the east coast, but here is a basic primer on digging razor clams.

For razors all you need to do is dance around in the waves like an idiot while thumping the sand with your shovel, like a Watusi on crack. Then when you think you see a “show”, a dimple in the sand that looks a lot like all the indentations made by your frenzied shovel thumping, you dig rapidly, while the sand collapse around the hole you are trying to dig. Then you lay on you stomach in 42 degree mud reaching into the hole up to you arm pit. You will know you have found the clam when the tips of your fingers are lacerated – hence the name razor clam. Once you have a hold of the top edge of the shell, which often shatters either causing you to lose your grip or making subsequent cleaning much more difficult. If you manage to hang, on you will be fighting the clam’s desperate and surprisingly strong efforts to dig deeper, cramps in your bleeding fingers and sucking mud. Just as you begin to make progress prying the clam out of the mud a huge wave comes in washing you up the beach 50 yards Once you can breath again go look for your shovel and repeat.

PM me if interested. No recipe no lesson!