Beach Monkey Bonanza!

[mudpuppy]

Big storm last night, then the wind shifted hard out of the east and knocked down the Big Lake waves...dead flat and nice overcast and cool...perfect for a longish hunt!
I found this cut I've had my eye on for a while, it keeps getting bigger and bigger...lots of clad gets tossed up onto the steep slope and on the black sand, so I was merrily plowing along with the Pro when I saw a nice shiny dime laying there ahead of me 10' away. I thought, "Cool, a clean fresh drop ready to spend!" When I got up to it, it was a nice crisp 63 silver Rosie! I worked a lot of beach this am, in the water and up on the slope...bet I walked an easy 5 miles in waders...I need to get back out, its not often when the Big Lake if this flat with blowouts this big...
Mud

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Way to go Mud! Sunbaker Silver is not easy to find!

 

[jim tn]

Good on the silver eyeball find and enough other targets to keep it interesting. Yeah, that is becoming a pretty healthy cut. HH jim tn

 

[JimmyCT]

Wow Mud -

That is one big bonanza and lots of prime hunting! Even a ladybug came by to check out your shiny silver dime. They bring good luck too (at least that is what I have been told when I was a young whippersnapper)

 

[dgruff]

That's cool, Mud! Keep at it man, maybe you'll find something from one of those shipwrecks the Coast Guard saw a couple of weeks ago!
Good luck!

 

[tabman]

Nice going Mud! You just never know what might pop up at a site like that. That looks a lot more fun than dirt fishing.

tabman

 

[mudpuppy]

Thanks guys,

Tab, beach work is just awful! I can honestly say I hate every minute of it! I am not lying!

I prefer dirt work, but I live so close, so whats a guy to do? Depending upon conditions, I will hunt the beach, and on a flat day like this, a guy has to go...we get maybe 10 really super perfect days in a year to beachhunt this shoreline, theres gold here that has laid for a long time, but the Big Lake dont give it up easy...

A guy tries to stretch the season if he can and work some half decent days.....I doubt you would like it, its a grind with no real signs to read except the blowouts, then its a matter of finding them, and getting in them at just the right time...lots of hard miles between pings otherwise..
Mud

 

[fongu]

Well done, Mud. We had a storm in Crisp county, Ga the other night and knocked some 80 trees down and we were without power 9 hours and some people 16 hours. Since I don't have to deal with the large waves like you do, I prefer water hunting because it's easier on me old bones and such.
When the river gets up to 1-1/2 to 2 foot waves when the wind is out of the NW or NE, it tosses me around pretty good and the boat wash from all the boats is strong, but nothing like the ocean. Guess I'm just a woos....Great eyeball find on the rosie, mud. The first time they let the water down in 2012 and I saw a gold ring just laying there at the edge of the land, it was something special to me.