Beach hunting local lake

[Kevin@TKSales]

What program are you using for hunting non salt water lakes? Thanks

 

[Steve1825]

Depends on trash content. I scan with a 10 DD in somewhat clean beaches. Many of these beaches have had many campfires on them over the years with melted cans. We have these on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Then you have to pay attention to target size. Lake beaches are pretty clean if they are still used for that purpose. Locals keep them clean. Lakes where the water has been drawn down are the most problematic. The first three feet next to the shoreline are full of trash, broken glass and lead fishing sinkers. These will need a smaller coil like the 4X6 DD shooter. Then go over with a 10 DD anywhere past the three foot line. Also remember lake waters don't get much wave action like rivers do with barges. Lower your sensitivity. All my coins were within the four inch mark with many on the surface. On trashy beaches, if you are finding good items, you may with to carry a plastic bucket to pick up cans and other trash. Just pick a twenty foor area to clean up, check your finds, and then determine if the added effort was worth it. At least an area would be clean and you could try going deeper with your sensitivity. Good Luck.

 

[nw1886]

Depends on trash content. I scan with a 10 DD in somewhat clean beaches. Many of these beaches have had many campfires on them over the years with melted cans. We have these on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Then you have to pay attention to target size. Lake beaches are pretty clean if they are still used for that purpose. Locals keep them clean. Lakes where the water has been drawn down are the most problematic. The first three feet next to the shoreline are full of trash, broken glass and lead fishing sinkers. These will need a smaller coil like the 4X6 DD shooter. Then go over with a 10 DD anywhere past the three foot line. Also remember lake waters don't get much wave action like rivers do with barges. Lower your sensitivity. All my coins were within the four inch mark with many on the surface. On trashy beaches, if you are finding good items, you may with to carry a plastic bucket to pick up cans and other trash. Just pick a twenty foor area to clean up, check your finds, and then determine if the added effort was worth it. At least an area would be clean and you could try going deeper with your sensitivity. Good Luck.

I tend to do most of my hunting in these kinds of places and this info is solid,solid,solid Steve. (Lowering sensitivities and coil selection is where it is at too!)


In addition to this....secondary areas like observation knolls, slopes with a good view of the beach and sports areas, grassy "packing up the car" spots, and grassy areas just beyond a foot traffic "choke point". What's great about these areas is even though they don't have as much concentrated use,there is less and more separated trash, less chance of having been detected, easier/faster coverage.......and these places see higher chain loss, and with this: Use of a hyper tuned pinpointer or DX-1 is essential for quick tracing/shape confirmation. (Chain does not get found much and it tends to build up in quantity......and does require separate settings/more dedicated sweep patterns.)

There is one other thing about lake beaches, there always seems to be "an old beach area" that has long since been forgotten. Muck and iron abound.....but so does sterling and plated silverware....if you are lucky.

Another thing you mentioned Steve (Kudos), get rid of that trash! A friend of ours is a nurse and she see's so many cases of infections coming from where people get a cut or scrape at a beach, wait to get home and clean up, and pick up some staph infection in between. (The numbers are huge and a lot of staph is sidestepping all our "modern" health tech!)

 

[TIM CLARK]

Went out today hit are beach at the state park I used the HI-PRO program and was using the 10x12 SEF coil and it worked really good in the sand.

 

[Aurium]

I just us HiPro for just about everything myself. Sand is usually pretty benign in freshwater at least where I've been hunting.