Bullrakes - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Clammer · 01-10-2003, 10:28 PM

When your hungry===5 Bullrakes in good shape ===best offer

capesams · 01-11-2003, 01:22 PM

$2.75 fa all.....come with directions?

Clammer · 01-11-2003, 02:34 PM

yo Cape for $ 275.00 comes with personal instructions/

capesams · 01-11-2003, 03:12 PM

no hogs left......weekenders an kids gottem all....this place is beginin ta sux...............to many people.

Clammer · 01-11-2003, 05:23 PM

Yea your right on that =but I do have a couple of places were the Hog still lives 200+ on the right day ==when 8-9 years ago had spots 400-500 was possible, once had almost 1500 with 98% hogs,===== some of these chowders are pushing 2lbs

we coulsd always swap ==wood

JHABS · 01-11-2003, 06:29 PM

CLAMDIGGER, Looking for a small bullrake, for necks how wide are they.

capesams · 01-11-2003, 06:49 PM

The guys useing scuba gear didn't help any, they cleaned up.

Clammer · 01-11-2003, 11:53 PM

Cape your 100% right !!!worse thing they let happen to this industry ==letting them dig in water 1 to 10 feet

john, some are large mud rakes/long teeth
One wire back
one sweet small suitcase rake
all are in good to very good condition ///

JHABS · 01-17-2003, 09:31 AM

CLAMDIGGER, How much for that small RAKE............ have a couple of large ones looking for a small one....

Clammer · 01-17-2003, 04:11 PM

John you know we can work something out??/
its a suitcase I doubt if you have ever used this style/ right size for stick digging but you need to use more stale
be in touch/////

Clammer · 02-14-2003, 04:34 PM

JHabs

John
17 " wide,16 teeth =3' long

Mr. Sandman · 02-15-2003, 12:51 PM

I use to do it commercially for almost 10 years on the Great South Bay (LI) when I was 14-23yo, paid for a big part of my college that way. I only got little necks, averaged about 1500 per day. (3 count bags) (maybe 1 doz were chowda clams a peck or so of cherrys...all necks where I lived) (I rarely worked mud it was pretty sandy., about 8-10' of water) we use to get between 5-20 cents (mid 70's) per calm (for little necks) depending on the time of year. Generally it was about a dime.
I have no idea how you guys do today but I know the amount of work it took to dig 500 clams. I had arms like popeye back then. Now I get winded working my mechanical pencil.

(my best day (I'never foreget it) was when they opened an area that had been heavely transplanted. I headed out to this new area and there were so many boats you could walk across the water on them. But the clamming was amazing. 10 counts in no time. The rake was packed in a matter of seconds. But the price went to zippo and it was not worth the effort.)

l.i.fish.in.vt · 02-15-2003, 06:13 PM

MR Sandman, did you clam off Patchogue? if you did i bet we know each other or many of the same people. Clammer i think i sent you a PM meant for Sandman.

Mr. Sandman · 02-15-2003, 06:31 PM

yeah. From Bay Shore to Patchogue. I had a 21' Maryland sharpie clamming boat. Heavy as hell. Spent a good part of the summer living on our famlilys boat docked at Fire Island, clamming, and fishing and generally enjoying life. (a lot of clammers knew me as "Moby", jezzz thats going back a ways).
I heard they closed Barrett beach down...what a bummmer!
I have a close cousin that did a lot of commerical dredging in and around BluePoint. (owns a nice oyster farm now in Noank,CT...ever eat at Legal Seafood...thats them.)

I haven't pulled a rake in a looooooong time (and don't really want to). My kids want me to pick up few rakes for them to goof around with in the pond here. (non-commercial of course.) I was going to head over to this place on the cape that makes a ton of them (can't think of the name off hand) when it warms up. Don't want anything too big. I am more interested in steamers (any oysters) these days anyway.

l.i.fish.in.vt · 02-15-2003, 07:14 PM

those were the good old days. most people knew me as Fish,its funny most of the clammers i knew, you didn't ever know there real names. the place on the cape is Ribb, that makes rakes. spent a lot of time at Davis Park, at the Casino. lived on a house boat there one summer. i,d pull a rake tommorrow if i could make a living at it. did tong quite abit had a 34 ft tong boat.

Mr. Sandman · 02-16-2003, 07:00 AM

Tongs! I was jerk raking. Most of the tongers I knew worked the soft bottom more and did do a lot more of the big stuff. I tried tonging a couple times...it was a lot different.

There was a time when I was doing pretty well and had thoughts of postponing (engineering) college and doing it for a living ...my dad introduced me to two older guys from his fishing club that did it all thier lives (I was 18 at the time). After those meetings (on their boats), I decided to keep it as a part time job and do it when I wasn't going to school. (A couple of the stories they told changed my mind about "how great it was" pretty quick, their advice could not have been more clear) Looking back, he did the right thing as a parent...he didn't tell me I couldn't do it, but said I should speak to some one who has/is doing it for a living. I was embarrassed because I thought I was kicking ass out there and I didn't need to speak to some grumpy old dudes about clamming...but to please my dad, I did, and it curtailed my "being a baymen" dream pretty quick.

I can't see me doing it these days, except to dig a peck or so for the table (in the warmer weather...not on 4 deg days)Is there any money in it now at all?

Ribb..thats the place, found their website, nice! thanks!