Skunked with the Tiger Shark

[Rainyday101]

Went to a county park beach on friday night and hit the water. All I found was rusty nails. Someone has hunted this spot out bone dry. Usually I find a ton of bottlecaps. Not a one. This place was picked clean. I grabbed the Silver uMax and hit the adjoining park and down from the beach I found a fair amount of modern clad. As I started looking around there were signs demonstrating how the county had reclaimed the shoreline and the advantages of doing such. I wondered at one time if this shoreline may have been the original beach. I asked my wife and she said it was because she used to have her class picnic their when she was a kid. I am thinking about hitting this area and only hope whoever cleaned the other beach out did not know this. Still looking for a worthy ring.

The big beaches on the bay by us our tough pickings for me. I have never really went swimming at them so I am not sure where everyone congregates and swims. These are just big sandy beaches and I never know where to star. At most of these beaches you can walk out half a mile and only be chest deep so it's not like there is a roped off swimming area. Kinda like a freshwater ocean. Things will get better though when the river levels go down. Right now the rivers are still just to high.

 

[pulltaber]

Maybe you will have better luck in the grass for a while,till the water goes down.

 

[Hombre]

I've owned the same Tiger Shark for 12 years, been skunked a few times myself. The Tiger Shark is a little heavy for land hunting, but when the control box is mounted in the rear under the arm it balances pretty well and can extend your hunting time. Since my favorite beaches have been hammered to death I'm contemplating mounting the Tiger on a straight shaft and using it more on dry land, it has excellent iron discrimination.

 

[Rainyday101]

Yea Pulltaber I think you are right. Right now all I have been finding on land is clad. I don't think the Silver uMax can get deep enough to get the silver coins here. The soil in most places is soft or sandy and I am finding 60's coins in the 4-6 inch range. I don't think the Silver will get a coin past 6 inches very easily. Now it does find cans and larger iron at 12" without a problem. At some of my land spots I am finding soda cans from the 70's at 8" deep. In my front yard I found a kids metal sand scoop from like a bucket and scoop play set at 10". My house is over 100 years old and my parents and us have occupied it since the early sixties. My dad knows who built the house and who has lived there, he estimates the scoop at 90 plus years old. I know there is silver in my yard, but judging by the scoop depth and other deep metal I have found I think the silver is out of reach for the Silver uMax. I have tried the Tiger on land a little but haven't found a decent cherry picking setting on the disc to ignore trash and just get the coins. The Silver uMax is excellent at this and my yard is trashy cuz I can hear all the clicks and pops on trash until I get that sweet sounding coin sound. Might be time to add the Vaquero to my Tesoro line up.

 

[Lake Hunter]

I've owned the same Tiger Shark for 12 years, been skunked a few times myself. The Tiger Shark is a little heavy for land hunting, but when the control box is mounted in the rear under the arm it balances pretty well and can extend your hunting time. Since my favorite beaches have been hammered to death I'm contemplating mounting the Tiger on a straight shaft and using it more on dry land, it has excellent iron discrimination.

This is what both my Tiger Shark and Sand Shark look like on straight shafts. Best thing I ever did for water hunting.

 

[pulltaber]

Hey Lake Hunter,That's a good looking pair of sharks.I have a straight shaft for my tiger,but I only use it on dry land.the best set up for water at lest for me is stock shaft with the tiger mounted below and in front of hand grip;then take a piece of 3/4" foam pipe insulation about 5"long and put it behind hand grip.By doing this the detector will be neutrally balanced in the water you can let go of it ,and the coil will set on bottom and the hand grip will float beside you ready to go instead of sinking.If I use this setup on my stingray 2,I have to mount the control box on top of shaft or it will roll to the left.

 

[Lake Hunter]

Hey Lake Hunter,That's a good looking pair of sharks.I have a straight shaft for my tiger,but I only use it on dry land.the best set up for water at lest for me is stock shaft with the tiger mounted below and in front of hand grip;then take a piece of 3/4" foam pipe insulation about 5"long and put it behind hand grip.By doing this the detector will be neutrally balanced in the water you can let go of it ,and the coil will set on bottom and the hand grip will float beside you ready to go instead of sinking.If I use this setup on my stingray 2,I have to mount the control box on top of shaft or it will roll to the left.

I never liked the S-rod setup for me. I like the balance of the straight shaft in the water the way I have it setup. I use a scoop in other hand and a sifter in tow to dump it in. Both the scoop and detector float along side of me if needed also.