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About ready to go Dredgeing

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Flintstone

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Boy's if this weather stay's like this for a week or two I am going to start getting in the water. Most of the time it is May before I even think about going.
 
I live in Kentucky, and prospect in OHIO. It was in the 60's but now it is a cold fount coming through so it will be a week or so now. I have broke the ice and got in but am a little older now. If it gets in the upper 60's I can put on my wet suit and have at it. The place I go don't big gold but loads of small gold. I use my 3" dredge and get 2 to 2.5 grams in a day. To me that is play with pay. I love to dredge, one day if I live long enough I will try CA. for gold. I am only 65 years and plan to play for a few more years anyway. Flintstone
 
Know what you mean by "Cold"! I Floated my 6" Keen + all pig Iron, a half mile down river in full flood, from the mouth of Kanaka Creek to the Bridge at Foot's Crossing on the Middle Yuba on December 14th 1980. It was the Old 16hp B&S Cast Iron, with the BIG Keen 3x4 pump, the engine, pump, and compressor alone weighted in at 135 lbs. I didn't want to Pack it up out of the Hole, as I had packed it up past Kanaka to Chinkapin corner, where Jerry Miner and I pulled out a 3 oz gold quartz specie nugget earlier that summer with a modified 4" Keene running 35' of suction hose.

I had ran my 5" Keene, in May-Nov 1978, on McCoy Creek apx 3/8 mile below Camp Creek. This was a Deep Dark Canyon with Little or No Sun and it was in Old Growth Fir, 3'-6'dia., I had to use the Deep Sea Hard Hat Divers trick of screwing a Nut on a Bolt to tell when I was getting TOO Hypodermic to dredge anymore and get out and get Warmed Up. Getting Warmed up in that Hole was nigh on to Impossible and would take me hours. My face would start to Freeze if I left ANY skin exposed, it felt like it was Burning It was so Cold. I don't do that anymore, too old(65) and Smart or maybe Wossified.
 
They say you can't teach old dog new tricks, well I will be 65 this coming NOV. and I don't do that anymore. I have in the past ( LONG PAST ) broken the ice and got in to dredge. Most of the time I didn't get to much gold because I almost frozen in one spot. If I moved it would make it even colder. Don't tell me old dogs don't learn, may take me a long time but I did. Now I like it when it is so hot I take off my shirt and lay in the water to get cool. I love to dredge. Hope you have a good year. flintstone
 
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