CZ-20 at the beach vs. My TIger Shark...

[DavHut]

I have been advised that my Tiger Shark will give dissapointing performance on the salt water beaches here in South Carolina. I've had it for awhile and in the fresh water lakes and ponds, it has little equal. This I know to be true.

But I want a bit of fantasy with it: I want it to be a "do-all" machine, working well in the wet salt, too. See, I only get to the beach a few times a month during the warmer season.

I have a CZ7a Pro and selling it is an option if I can get a little closer to my fantasy. I know the CZ can be used in fresh water, but just how IS the CZ-20 around the wet salt shallows?

Someone said that life is short and that getting a machine for the salt water would not dissapoint, even if I only get to the ocean on an infrequent basis. I'd like to hear from those of you who detect from FL - MD, if youre willing.

Since the CZ-20 shares much with the CZ5/6 series, I don't think I'd be giving up much, in the end, if I replaced the Quicksilver with the CZ-20(truth be told, I liked my old 1266X better, anyway ).

Thanks for ALL your help. I really enjoy seing all the stuff ya'll turn up at the beach!

 

[Joe G]

My CZ-20 is now the backup to an ExpII (which I love). My first mistake was getting the CZ with the 8" coil instead of the 10.5" but even so, it gets some great depth; almost as good as the Exp II. My wife's been using it in dry sand though, so it's probably better that it has the 8".

The CZ tends to false on me in the shallow surf when in disc mode. I can only imagine what it's like with the larger coil. However, I just run in autotune and simply switch back to "o" disc to ID a target. I've found this works pretty well and it allows me to run at a higher sensitivity. I'm told that the CZ is not as sensitive to small gold...

All in all it's a great machine (they could have done better with the headphones) but I'd sure like to try out an Excal (especially after using the ExpII the last couple of months). Seems everyone at the beach uses one. I've only seen one other guy who uses a CZ. You sure can't beat Fisher's lifetime warranty though. The last time I sent it out for repair (great service by the way), they pratically re-built the machine.

Just my .02 worth...