Too Cold?

[Guppy]

Thought I'd try my hand at quohoging today so I calls the Nat Recourses guy up to make sure the spot I was going was open,,,, he tells me the temp has to be above 28 deg. !!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't believe my ears and didn't bother to ask the reasoning behind it,,,,
What's up with that?

back to work, Gup

[spence]

It needs to be above freezing otherwise the ground is too hard to dig them out.



-spence

[fishsmith]

Never heard that before. But I could go for a stuffed quahog and ice cold beer....
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[Mike P]

28 degrees is where salt water freezes. In open air, a quahog will die in the shell below 28. Some towns prohibit all quahogging below 28, and others only prohibit dry digging, as most quahoggers keep the baskets in the water, suspended from a float ring, when they wade dig. As long as they're kept in the water, and not left out too long out of the water, they'll be fine.

[Guppy]

Originally Posted by Mike P

28 degrees is where salt water freezes. In open air, a quahog will die in the shell below 28. Some towns prohibit all quahogging below 28, and others only prohibit dry digging, as most quahoggers keep the baskets in the water, suspended from a float ring, when they wade dig. As long as they're kept in the water, and not left out too long out of the water, they'll be fine.

Ya! I figured the freeze part of it but thought that only with soft shell there would be a problem,,,, leaving the under size uncovered for too long before planting again,,, who or how do you harvest hogs knee to waist deep and keep um out of water ,,,, 30 minutes late they where scheduled for the cooker then into chowdah,,,,

stuffed quahog and ice cold beer....O'h yah! ... now I'm really p o'd

This Spence guy is a wize guy