Hunting The Dry Towel Line On Fresh Water Beaches With No Tides/Water Migration?

[Critterhunter]

Just curious how many of you guys like to hunt the towel line on fresh water beaches were there is no tide to change things. How you doing on the towel line for gold rings as compared to in the water? Seems like I've had more luck with rings in the dry sand than in water water, although to be fair I've only seriously started hunting the water more of the last few years. But just the same I've dug as many rings in the sand as in the water over the last few years. Anybody else seem to have good luck on the towel line or just in the dry sand in general between there and the water?

 

[Critterhunter]

Bumping this up. Again, not talking about at the ocean where tides change the water levels, but rather on fresh water beaches where the dry sand pretty much stays where it's at. This year I've had zero luck gridding out dry beaches and am starting to think the little bit of luck I've had in the past was just that- luck, with no rhyme or reason to it. I would figure with people walking out of the water flinging off a ring from shriveled hands, or playing frisbee/ball, or digging in the sand, or rubbing on sun tan lotion, or hiding their rings under the corner of their beach blanket while swimming...That there would be pretty good odds finding a good many rings on dry beach sand. But to be honest I've hardly done much beach hunting over the years, and even less water hunting, but the few times I've had beach hunted in the past I've had pretty good luck finding rings on the beach. Only in the last two years have I started to do any serious water hunting, where as before it was just waiding say less than knee deep with a land detector. Now that I have a Sovereign and can chest mount it I've been going deeper than waist deep the last two years a bit and having some luck, just just the same I found two rings in the dry sand last year, but despite hitting dry beaches hard this year and digging a ton of trash and coins, no rings are showing up. No jewlery at all other than a junk earring. The water has been good to me though over the past month. Just wondering if I'm wasting my time with the dry beach hunts or if others hunting fresh water beaches out of the water do pretty well at it?

 

[Todd Pickens]

I hunt fresh water swimmen holes more than I hunt the surf. I do find a lot of clad and cell phones and other things not a whole lot of rings. I find most of my blings in the water. fresh or salt.

 

[Lakota]

Well with a little less then a summer under my belt for water hunting, I did do plenty with my land machines ( beaches and thigh high water hunting). So far the dry sand doesn't hold a candle to water. Remember anyone with a wal-mart bounty hunter can go out and hit the dry sand. This is probably why I havent found all that great of items in the dry. Water is different all together, think it is alot harder for a person to look for a lost item once they figure out its lost in the water versus dry.

I'm sure though the answer to this question will vary from member to member.

Lakota

 

[mudpuppy]

I work the beaches of Lake Michigan. It is very seasonal, weather dependant type hunting..even right down to scheduling around local festivals and whatnot...I used to do well on gold rings up on the dry, until this year, only one little 14k...the beaches have been swept by everybody and their brother from the waters edge to 30yds up or more..cant even find a bobby pin! .luckily, the Big Lake is very unpredictable and ever changing, and really tough to hunt, so again, depending on the water temp and waves, a guy only has maybe 20 days per summer when conditions in the water are absolutely perfect.
I'd say its a factor of many things, gold not worn, being sold, lots of detectorists, indoor heated pools, economy.., yes lots of cell phones found and returned, only one guy felt compelled to give me a reward, (50 dollar gift certificate to his store) In my short but dedicated carreer as a detectorist, I'd say dry sand hunting is a waste of time, but great excersize, walking miles in the dark on dry sand is a workout! Smoke jumping smaller inland beaches or swimming holes is probably more productive and not so hard.
Mud

 

[Megagold]

These are some of my rings found on the dry sand. I think the trick is to hunt early am or the evening. So many detectorist hunting the beaches now. I counted 15 one morning! Wow! They drive from all around the area. But what I don't see is the water hunters. So I'm gearing up for the water. Don't give up on the dry sand, but there is not much there. Your lucky some days and not so lucky others. Alot of steel and tungston rings and junk jewelry out there. Hunt other places besides the towel line. I found a 1945 war nickel the other day. And if I can find a couple of bucks in a day, I'm happy! Good luck!