Hello all,
I just picked up a water machine and have a scoop on order. I live on the Oregon coast and want to try my hand at water detecting. The beaches here are beautiful...but very cold year round and noone really ever swims in them, or sunbathes for that matter so I wont be doing saltwater.
What I am going to try to do are the rivers, lakes and ponds slightly inland where people do sunbathe and swim in the waters very frequently. I have never tried this before and would appreciate any advice or pointers from experienced hands that may save me a lot of "newbie" grief.
I do have a lot of years experience land detecting. I will be using a at pro, a 48" alum scoop with reinforced s.steel tip and wearing chest waders. I have tried to watch some vids on youtube but most of them are ocean vids and they dont show a lot of retreival..only finds afterward.
On the plus side...I have detected the beaches at these spots before and cleaned up, just never made it in the water. (lots of coins and a few rings) AND I have never seen anyone ever run a water detector in this area. So I have my fingers crossed
SO..if you have any tips I would appreciate them or if you can point me towards and great informative posts or vids that would be amazing also.
thx, all
I just picked up a water machine and have a scoop on order. I live on the Oregon coast and want to try my hand at water detecting. The beaches here are beautiful...but very cold year round and noone really ever swims in them, or sunbathes for that matter so I wont be doing saltwater.
What I am going to try to do are the rivers, lakes and ponds slightly inland where people do sunbathe and swim in the waters very frequently. I have never tried this before and would appreciate any advice or pointers from experienced hands that may save me a lot of "newbie" grief.
I do have a lot of years experience land detecting. I will be using a at pro, a 48" alum scoop with reinforced s.steel tip and wearing chest waders. I have tried to watch some vids on youtube but most of them are ocean vids and they dont show a lot of retreival..only finds afterward.
On the plus side...I have detected the beaches at these spots before and cleaned up, just never made it in the water. (lots of coins and a few rings) AND I have never seen anyone ever run a water detector in this area. So I have my fingers crossed
SO..if you have any tips I would appreciate them or if you can point me towards and great informative posts or vids that would be amazing also.
thx, all