Question for Lake Hunters

[S.TexasKevin]

Been water hunting for about seven years. I have had some very good luck in our south Texas bay areas. Problem is, I know of a fresh water lake, swimming hole that was very active the last ten years. The area goes back even further. I have yet to pull out a gold ring. I spent the last two weekends looking and the water is extremely low so on dry land is where the water was. Pulled out two nice silver and on nice copper along with tons of trash. Plenty of coins except the old stuff. At first I thought it was because I was to far down the water line and needed to move higher up, but nada. Out of the swimming area, I find fishing weights with every step. This is where the old silver coins should be, along with a gold ring or two, but I can't figure it out. Are the trash and weights masking the gold and old silver coins ???
CZ-3D dry/water edge
CZ-21 in the water
1270 dry area, looking for the old coins
wife was using Excal dry/water edge

 

[scubadetector]

Off to the side maybe. I travel in front of houses and I have stumbled upon some GREAT old swimming holes. Second, yes keep digging trash and good stuff might be underneath it. I have this one drop off that I am constantly getting good and bad stuff out of. I am going to take a few magenets with me and see if I can clear out a whole area of iron to keep trying to find more rings.

Good luck and keep us posted!

 

[TheDualFieldBandit]

The Excalibur should work good in and around the iron. Like scubadetector said keep cleaning out the trash if you got the time to do it? Maybe something will show up! People have been water detecting for some time now. The first water machine that I remember was the Garrett AT3 and I had the AT4 it was a good unit too. The old timers that used them could pretty much clean out a place if they put the time in to do it! Maybe your spot has been gone through in the late 80's early 90's? Plus if you can get a hold of a pulse unit it might do the trick by getting you down a little deeper.

 

[Crenman]

You should still hear the good targts mixed in.
Personaly I would dig it all. Leave nothing good targets can get masked but I find as long as go slow I can hear the trash and the goods togeather. As a matter of fact I did a test not to long ago with a penny,iron,quarter and gold ring I started out putting them on a pile all touching and scaned then then I started moving them farther apart to see what they sounded like. Try doing that with a few diffrent ways and it will give u a good idea of what to expect. Just listen close to your excal its talking to u u just have to listen harder.
Even if someone hunted it hard you should still find some old goodies they missed. Keep at it your bound to hit a homerun if u keep swinging.

I hunt east Texas and get down south once a quarter if u want some help swinging let me know.

Goodluck

 

[S.TexasKevin]

[size=medium]ScubaD, I have seen plenty of water goers in this area. It is marked off for swimming which helps keep my lead weight count down in the swimming hole. A particular gentleman, whom is there daily, remembers me the last time (two years ago) and said there had only been one other detectorist here around the same time, but he had not seen us since. I was pulling out coins so I figured it had not been worked for a while. I do have all winter to hunt it, I just can't figure out the no gold ring yet thing.
DualField, now the older coins could have been taken out by a certain friend of mine (I'll have to get with him) back in the 70's/80's.
Crenman, I had thought about gathering up some of the junk and do what you did. When you come down this way let me know ahead and we should be able to do some kind of hunting.[/size]

 

[Finderskeeper]

It is highly probable that the swimming hole you are at was hunted by someone else not too long ago.

I know that some folks just throw the sinkers they find back in because they don't want to carry them. The area probably has been cherry picked.

I hunt freshwater lakes when in Ohio and it is tougher than hunting saltwater beaches and water due to the fact that aluminum and other junk metal lasts longer in fresh water. Plus the beaches in Ohio do not get the same amount of people the beaches say in Florida get. Nobody comes to Ohio to go to the beaches. It is mainly local folks. My guess is it is the same where you are at.

 

[John(Tx)]

Wish we could be able to hunt lake Mathis, I have seen hundreds in there......HH

 

[Goldak]

That's a tough one. I've been lake hunting several years now. I have one swim area that is divided pretty much in half. In one half I have found well over a dozen gold rings. In the other half I have only found 1 gold ring among hundreds of coins. I keep thinking that it's just luck and things will balance out but it's been the same story for years. HH!

 

[deerman]

it also is whos using the beach?low income/high income.high income familys have more cash to spend on gold were low income not so much thats why you see people detecting in front of high class hotels,theres a better chance of gold in front of them?

 

[Sandhillhunter]

Hello, I hunt fresh water swimming holes here in Florida and have found lots of the older silver coins, and rings deep, Slow your swing down and try hunting the area after a good rain on the dried lake bed, some of the deeper targets will signal after a good rain, watch for any dirt to be moved or shifted with a tractor every little bit of movement of the dirt will get you more depth, here where I hunt if I find an area with excessive trash or fishing weights , my expiernce has been that the area has good targets and it really does not matter if other hunters have been in that area it will still produce , patients will pay off there is good targets there , they are just deep..