Yeah, that pond’s okay, but it’s mostly raked out,” the guy at Coop’s Bait & Tackle was telling me. He was right: a few days earlier, I had been standing in nearby Sengekontacket Pond, a tidal pond on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a rake in one hand and a cooler bag in the other, I climbed out of a kayak ready to go clamming for the first time. I was ...

For those of us who have difficulty finding peace while sitting in one place, clamming can be an unexpected escape. By Kim Gooden On these dark winter evenings, when the end of the day has crept up ...

Sammy held the dark, odd-shaped, deep brown clump of stuff in his hand, showed it to me and said, ”Grandpa, is this doo-doo?” “NO-NO, no doo- doo, absolutely not,” I said. “It’s pure, clean, good mud.