Gas lantern puts out a uniform medium grade light that's best for spotting holes. Once you find one, the lantern stays some distance from the hole, continuing to shine light obliquely onto the sand to reveal every contour, including that precious clam "show".

The ultra-intense new-fangled headlights will allow you to spot them from an oblique angle, but the instant you shine that light perpendicular to the sand over your clam hole, the brightness renders the sand completely featureless, leaving you with that "WTF? Where's my hole?" feeling.

Seen it happen way too many times.
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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