Raked clam flats at low tide under coastal fog

Low tide, hand dug

Everything you need
to dig your own.

Tides, licenses, technique, and the gear that holds up — a plain-English guide to digging quahogs on the New England flats.

Start with the basics The gear

Tides & access

When the flats open up, and knowing whose water it is.

Licenses & limits

The permit, the size gauge, and the daily limit — keeping it legal.

Technique

Treading, raking, and reading the bottom — how to find them.

Gear

The short list that actually matters — and where to get it.

Why this site

Straight answers, no upsell.

Everything here is free to read and written to actually help you fill a basket. When we point you to a piece of gear, it is something worth owning, the link is marked, and it never changes the advice. No popups, no storefront. That is the whole deal.