I just moved from Wisconsin to Florida. I am near the villages and want to go to the east coast near where the spanish fleet sunk by ft. pierce or near the best beaches to go in that area. Really could use some good beaches to go to. Also where it is legal. Any help would be really appreciated and would be really nice to find a hunting buddy. I have a minelab soverign gt. Its new and am trying to learn it. I would like to beach hunt. I heard different things like the nor easters, then to be at the beach about 2 hours before low tide. I have no wife so I can hunt as long as it takes. Please, I need all the help I can get. My e-mail is jackeast2003@yahoo.com. Thanks for reading this and really hope there is somone who is knowlegable and willing to share some of there expertise. Jack
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Florida beaches
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Finderskeeper
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Good luck. The treasure coast is a hard place to hunt because it is so sanded in most of the time. The best time to go is at very low tide or after a hurricane or storm.walter-t said:I just moved from Wisconsin to Florida. I am near the villages and want to go to the east coast near where the spanish fleet sunk by ft. pierce or near the best beaches to go in that area. Really could use some good beaches to go to. Also where it is legal. Any help would be really appreciated and would be really nice to find a hunting buddy. I have a minelab soverign gt. Its new and am trying to learn it. I would like to beach hunt. I heard different things like the nor easters, then to be at the beach about 2 hours before low tide. I have no wife so I can hunt as long as it takes. Please, I need all the help I can get. My e-mail is jackeast2003@yahoo.com. Thanks for reading this and really hope there is somone who is knowlegable and willing to share some of there expertise. Jack
The best areas to hunt are between Sebastian inlet and route 60. There are several public access beaches that can get you to the areas where spanish coins have been found. But remember the Treasure coast has been hit pretty hard and most guys who hunt and live there don't hunt much there any more for a reason. Not much to find lately. I found that the Treasure coast is a pretty desolate area where even junk is hard to find. Not much modern finds either. I spent two days there recently and saw only two people on the beach the whole time. Finds of spanish treasure are made every once in a long while. Go to the McClartey museum off 1A1 and ask the folks there about recent finds. They have a whole book of photos and stories about treasure found on the beaches there. Most of the gold and silver at the museum is fake as they were robbed a while back.
I've spent many a day hunting those beaches and have found very little. Some iron spikes, misc. iron junk and a few small silver pieces.....but that was over a 20 year period of hunting there over the winter.
You can't hunt in the water there. Only dry sand hunting as there are leases for the water. The area is patrolled by state authorities and you will get a visit if you are in the water. There are video cameras also set up in areas where major finds have been made in the water by the Mel Fisher people. The leases were recently sold to another company.
Here is a good site that reports on the Treasure Coast metal detecting scene......http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/
I found that I had better luck at the graveyard of the Atlantic....the outer banks.
[/quote]Good luck. The treasure coast is a hard place to hunt because it is so sanded in most of the time. The best time to go is at very low tide[/quote]
I am currently trying to get clarification on the subject of where you can legally hunt the beach along the Treasure coast. I read it is between the high tide mark and the toe of the dunes (found on a link in the link you posted). If that is the case, then you are in trouble if you are in wet sand at dead low tide if it is below the high tide mark?
Or is this one of those deals where the authorities overlook it as long as you are keeping your feet and coil out of the water?
I am currently trying to get clarification on the subject of where you can legally hunt the beach along the Treasure coast. I read it is between the high tide mark and the toe of the dunes (found on a link in the link you posted). If that is the case, then you are in trouble if you are in wet sand at dead low tide if it is below the high tide mark?
Or is this one of those deals where the authorities overlook it as long as you are keeping your feet and coil out of the water?
Knew that link was somewhere there. Here it is, about halfway down the article it is discussed. Incidentally I have received contrary views as to where the zones actually are. I asked the blog author recently to elaborate about the legalities of the surf zone in his blog since their is conflicting opinions but did not get a response yet.
http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2010/09/918-report-rules-regulations-and.html
http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2010/09/918-report-rules-regulations-and.html
Finderskeeper
Active member
I was told by a local police officer that if I wanted to stay legal, I could go no deeper than ankle deep. Anything more and he says you are looking for trouble. Water detecting on the east coast of Florida is problematic as the waves are a whole lot rougher on the Atlantic side. Also, sanding has been going on quite heavily lately. While I was at the Ambersands beach, a sand barge was pumping sand onto the beach and covering up the beach. Makes for a real crappy detecting experience.
Of the twelve ships that were lost in 1715, seven have been found so far. So there are 5 others that are still not known where they have sunk. All up and down the Treasure coast treasure has been found. The only problem today is the sanding of the beaches and the fact that those beaches have been pounded pretty heavily by locals and by visitors to Florida. Many of the finds have been made without a metal detector. Just people walking down the beach and looking down. The McClarty museum has a whole book about the finds made on the Treasure Coast. Worth going in and checking it out. Lots of photos and newspaper stories.
The whole Treasure coast area from just a few miles north of the Sebastian inlet, south to Fort Pierce is leased with just a very few areas not leased. Best to just stay out of the water all together with a metal detector. No detecting in the state park although detecting on the beach is allowed.
The dunes are also off limits for digging so stay inside the base of the dunes to the tide line.
There has been some finds on the beach at the McClarty treasure museum. That is the site where the survivors met and started salvaging the treasure back in 1715. That site has been the area where a lot of treasure has been found.
To get there you will have to walk from the south on one of the public access beaches. Another good place to hunt is at the former Chuck's Steak house site.
That site is now a building that has natural science stuff for sea turtles and birds. You will have to go to the public access area to get to the beach as the state now owns the area that was Chuck's steak house. There is no public beach access there.
Here is another link to information on Treasure Coast metal detecting.......http://www.mitchking.us/water.html
Of the twelve ships that were lost in 1715, seven have been found so far. So there are 5 others that are still not known where they have sunk. All up and down the Treasure coast treasure has been found. The only problem today is the sanding of the beaches and the fact that those beaches have been pounded pretty heavily by locals and by visitors to Florida. Many of the finds have been made without a metal detector. Just people walking down the beach and looking down. The McClarty museum has a whole book about the finds made on the Treasure Coast. Worth going in and checking it out. Lots of photos and newspaper stories.
The whole Treasure coast area from just a few miles north of the Sebastian inlet, south to Fort Pierce is leased with just a very few areas not leased. Best to just stay out of the water all together with a metal detector. No detecting in the state park although detecting on the beach is allowed.
The dunes are also off limits for digging so stay inside the base of the dunes to the tide line.
There has been some finds on the beach at the McClarty treasure museum. That is the site where the survivors met and started salvaging the treasure back in 1715. That site has been the area where a lot of treasure has been found.
To get there you will have to walk from the south on one of the public access beaches. Another good place to hunt is at the former Chuck's Steak house site.
That site is now a building that has natural science stuff for sea turtles and birds. You will have to go to the public access area to get to the beach as the state now owns the area that was Chuck's steak house. There is no public beach access there.
Here is another link to information on Treasure Coast metal detecting.......http://www.mitchking.us/water.html
Finderskeeper said:I was told by a local police officer that if I wanted to stay legal, I could go no deeper than ankle deep. Anything more and he says you are looking for trouble. Water detecting on the east coast of Florida is problematic as the waves are a whole lot rougher on the Atlantic side. Also, sanding has been going on quite heavily lately. While I was at the Ambersands beach, a sand barge was pumping sand onto the beach and covering up the beach. Makes for a real crappy detecting experience.
Of the twelve ships that were lost in 1715, seven have been found so far. So there are 5 others that are still not known where they have sunk. All up and down the Treasure coast treasure has been found. The only problem today is the sanding of the beaches and the fact that those beaches have been pounded pretty heavily by locals and by visitors to Florida. Many of the finds have been made without a metal detector. Just people walking down the beach and looking down. The McClarty museum has a whole book about the finds made on the Treasure Coast. Worth going in and checking it out. Lots of photos and newspaper stories.
The whole Treasure coast area from just a few miles north of the Sebastian inlet, south to Fort Pierce is leased with just a very few areas not leased. Best to just stay out of the water all together with a metal detector. No detecting in the state park although detecting on the beach is allowed.
The dunes are also off limits for digging so stay inside the base of the dunes to the tide line.
There has been some finds on the beach at the McClarty treasure museum. That is the site where the survivors met and started salvaging the treasure back in 1715. That site has been the area where a lot of treasure has been found.
To get there you will have to walk from the south on one of the public access beaches. Another good place to hunt is at the former Chuck's Steak house site.
That site is now a building that has natural science stuff for sea turtles and birds. You will have to go to the public access area to get to the beach as the state now owns the area that was Chuck's steak house. There is no public beach access there.
Here is another link to information on Treasure Coast metal detecting.......http://www.mitchking.us/water.html
Very informative. Thank you for taking the time to clarify.
bubbles705
New member
get a pulse unit and keep exploring until you find your own secret spot, most of the beaches are hunted heavily !