Geographic confusion setting in... need help!

[Steve and Bia]

This weekend is a holiday weekend. Bia and I want to hit the surf! The problem is we don't know where to go. So, we're asking all of you to advise us on the most probable and prospective of these three beaches...

1. Ocean City, MD
2. Colonial Beach, Va
3. Virginia Beach, Va (I can visit Max/Tim again but surely it's still sanded in)

Thanks!

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Well, Ocean City is pretty heavily pounded...just like here...right? And most everybody has been reporting sanded in conditions.

It's cloudy and calling for rain a few times this week and I heard the weather-guesser on our local news saying that a system forming offshore later in the week would be stirring some stuff up and bringing us cooler air. It seems like the potential IS there for some movement of the sand, whether or not that will materialize. I've never hunted either of the other places. What you saw here last time is NOT the norm, as you know. But as far as I can see RIGHT NOW, it hasn't changed. I didn't hunt this past weekend and it looks to have been a good move.

 

[KKinVA]

Hurricane Isabell really did a number on the buildings and piers and boats all along the Potomac in this area last year. The public beach sand is trucked in and the wet surf line is full of nails, iron and many many many pieces of tin roof from the resturaunts that were destroyed in the storm. At the south eastern end, there is also lots of melted aluminum and other metals from a large fire that destroyed the piers and many boats at the Colonial Beach Yacht Center 2.5 years ago. I live 45 mins away....have been down there 4-5 times in last year since hurricane Isabell.....i am sure there are things to find, but the trash was too much for me to deal with. I have not been in the last few months, so maybe it has improved....but I would think not. I would rather drive to VA Beach and hunt with my friends than dig buckets of boat trash in Colonial Beach. Just my view...KK

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

n/t

 

[VaBeachRon]

n/t

 

[Steve and Bia]

n/t

 

[Steve and Bia]

n/t

 

[Steve and Bia]

But the dry sand was real good for Bia.

The wet sand and surf was a first time for me when we visited OC a month or so ago. Now I think I could hunt it more effectively since learning how to recognize areas that are probable.

Seriously, without this forum leaking the extensive knowledge of the elite surf hunters, I couldn't do it without practicing for years!

 

[Steve and Bia]

Just in case we do go to VA beach again.

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

"We invited them anytime. Yes they can come"