For weight on larger fish I use boga grip - for smaller fish in colander on digital food scale. They are $15 at WalMart - great tool if you want to learn relative weights of fish [WR].

RES would respond nicely to your clam forage base - you could grow some monsters likely.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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