BEACH HUNTING

[SANMAN]

Can someone tell how to read a beach for detecting?

 

[nolanation]

Lots of info on this topic if you search the forum and google!

 

[OldBeechnut]

No better teacher then Getting out and learn the beach, watch it daily..., every beach is different............ hunt it and learn it...........

 

[sonnar28]

I would suggest reading Gary Drayton's book "HOW TO READ THE BEACH AND WATER ", then try detecting a beach. Then reread, and hit the beach again; and keep on repeating . Some of it sinks in right away, some of it will not until you encounter that specific beach condition. But reading the book really helped me ask myself the questions that I needed to ask when I would walk out onto a beach, and pointed me in the right direction as to the various ways to hunt it.
Happy hunting!!
Charles

 

[dewcon4414]

Take a look at the THE GOLDEN OLDE or MDHTALK sites on beaches. A lot of information that any beach hunter can use. Its nice to be able to read a beach and only spend an hour or less to fill your pockets with gold. But lets get real, for most of us it depends on depositors, timing, competition, and season. Gold is where you find it... comes to mind. Dont assume you will read a beach and thats where the gold is. Ive gridded the heck out of a lot of beaches and found gold more where others DIDNT normally look than where they did. Recent drop times..... gold can be anywhere. Some gold moves.... like those with stones, ligher gold, or those with surf depending on current strength and depth lost.

Dew

 

[mudpuppy]

You can go out really early and look at all the tracks in the sand from the day/night before...or you can pull up a beach cam for ideas of where the heavy traffic is...then check it out with your rig and see if you 'read' it right...even little foil scraps tell a story...lots of practice, paying attention and coil time...its a very tough game..beachhunting that is...you have to be a glutton for punishment with few pings in between...I would hate to introduce a noobie into detecting by taking them beachhunting....most get discouraged pretty fast...
Mud

 

[GeorgeinSC]

As Mudpuppy said beach hunting is a hard game. I spent seven hours yesterday for a grand total of $3.10. One teeny tiny little sterling ring that has less than 50 cents worth of silver.

I spent over two and a half hours in the water getting slapped around by the surf. If I got out as far as waist deep I was getting knocked backwards by waves that were occasionally hitting me in the face. My water finds were one penny, one hair clasp and one bottle cap. This was in an area that gets thousands of visitors on a weekend.

However from time to time I do find something real good. But one has to work hard for every good find.

 

[Goldstrike]

SANMAN.....Are you planning to detect only in the dry, or wet, or going into the shallow/deep water? Is your machine waterproof?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

you're talking ocean facing beaches? Or lake beaches? If you're talking ocean facing beaches, here's an article I wrote. It's from the perspective of CA, but should be applicable on any seaboard state:

http://www.mdhtalk.org/tips/toms-beach-tips/tom-beach-tips.htm

 

[Hank68]

I can tell ya that with all the sharks staying close to shore, more people are staying close to shore , waist deep water is what I've been noticing , so hunt those areas to if you have A h2o detector , and gold sinks fast in the sand , hunt the towel line!

 

[louie41]

utube, lots of videos

 

[gamiller2]

Very good advice here ,many excellent sources referred to by previous posters. I agree with oldbeechnut though beaches can vary widely. Read and learn but there is no substitute for real world experience.