On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 7:09:22 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:10:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 4:56:38 AM UTC-7, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:41:51 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 6:49:23 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 13:22:47 -0400,
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She's a bit small for tonging oyster, and the gunwales arn't wide enough to stand on for tonging

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Did you mean not high enough? I've never seen anyone stand on the
gunwhales when tonging, more often leaning against them.

same here

www.floridamemory.com/items/show/123012

Like I said I did it for a living, but not in Fl. maybe they do it different in Fl? Looks the same to me, I worked my CB Deadrise on the James river tonging oysters with my boat.

Like this? Looks like it might even be on the James.

http://tinyurl.com/l42uyw5

Googling 'chesapeake bay oyster tongs' will show pics of folks doing it both ways.

Exactly like that with the cullboard amidship, We used a shot of chain off the bow to keep the boat steady in the current to work the bottom, then when we worked over a spot we'd use the tongs to push the boat backwards to get a new piece of bottom.

My old boat at the time was a 35' round stern CB deadrise with a chevy 350 that I worked out of Rescue Va in the winter, In the spring I'd put the hydraulic pot hauler on it then crabbed out in the bay for sook (female) crab and around June I'd pull my pots and head up the river to chase the jimmy (male) crabs.

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Your boat was considerably larger than the skiff they just completed
on YouTube. Different boats for different conditions no doubt. In
the harbors on Long Island Sound that I am most familiar with, they
use a different technique and smaller boats. They'll typically rig a
steadying sail to help them maintain position while working a rake or
basket on the end of a very long pole.

Thats called Bull Raking for clams. BTDT. About as hard work as tonging oysters.

Many moons ago I ran the Scoop II a 60' surf clam dredge boat out of Freeport LI for bait clams off Rockaway selling to Head boats from Sheepshead Bay to Montauk.

I also ran the 75' Enterprise out of Greenport dredgeing clams off Mattituck for Freeport Sea clam co mostly selling to Doxee, Campbells and Howard Johnsons