Some of the participants digging for gaper clams at the Seawall in Yaquina Bay Clam Clinic 2008.
Yaquina Bay Clam Digging offers gaper clams, softshell clams and cockles in numbers that exceed the desire of clam diggers to fulfill their expectations.  Gaper clams are dug under the Highway 101 Bridge (1), on the island next to the seawall (2), and occur in harvestable numbers in most of the tidal flats in the lower bay.  Cockles are common in harvestable number on most of the tidal flats in the lower bay.  Rake for cockles on the tidal flats east of the Highway 101 Bridge, on the tidal flat near the fishing pier adjacent to the gas plant road or on the tidal flats behind the Marine Science Center.  The best location to dig softshell clams is on the island below the Toledo Airport.  The tidal flat between the seawall and the marina on the island in the lower bay is a shellfish reserve and is closed to clam digging.

Yaquina Bay Crabbing: Crab from Sawyer’s landing seaward to a point midway in the jetty channel.  Crabbing is usually excellent from spring through fall and rapidly declines during periods of seasonal rainfall from November through February.  Crabbing from the Yaquina Bay public fishing piers located in South Beach next to the South Beach Marina and on the Bay Road at the Bay Street Pier, the Abby Street Pier and at the gas plant off of the Bay Road just east of town ranges from poor to excellent.

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