Overall, this is certainly the case. I'm still scratching my head over that one with the influx of new diggers over the years. It's hard to find those bucket-filling limits any longer

Should have kept it at 45 ... doesn't matter to me for my personal stash, I dig what I'll use in a winter and if I need to go another morning or two ... no biggie, but it should help keep overall harvest and the sad wastage issues that we too often see.

Having said that ... there is something seriously wrong at Clam Gulch (so, no it wasn't there;) ). It's been that way for several years now ... the Kasilof beaches are the same way, populations have plummetted and virtually no one digs Kasilof anyhow since the growth rate is slo slow on that end and even when present in big numbers, they tended to be small.

Maybe all that driving by the commercial boys on the beds in the recent years of heavy EO's has something to do with it???? Conspiracy theory? Sure, but awfully strange it all came about at the same time.

There should be no motorized vehicles on the lower section of the beach w/o a disabled permit! Oh, now I'm venting

Maybe one last round tomorrow ... see how the clients do before I dig up mine!