Just so elvis and Mike know the diff before they go down on the big dick (is that not the English translation for the Acadian Grande Digue)? You dig soft shelled clams out of the sandy muck in the intertidal area of a coast (often in an estuary, or near where fresh and salt water meet).Do so with your toe, if you have the time and you don't want many.

Now the quahogs (or quahaugs) and bar (or sea) clams don't need to be dug. They are hard shelled, bigger, in deeper water and lie just beneath the sand or salt water muck. Quohaugs are nice, but bar clams are tough. Bar clams are often used in chowders or tenderized and used in fried clam strips.