I left work early yesterday to get in a quick hunt before sundown at my beach. A gale has been blowing for the past few days and I felt that the beach would have been stirred up enough by now that I might find one of the few remaining tickets in a beach I have hunted to near exhaustion.
By the time I got home and into my wetsuit there were only 45 minutes before dark so I rushed down to the beach, set threshold and got down to it. I don't hunt after dark because Hogfish Cut runs right past my beach and if you want to find sharks that is a good place to look, especially at feeding time (just after dark)
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I noticed right away that my Excal didn't sound quite right but I was in a hurry to get in as much hunting as possible so I plunged ahead out to waist height. The chop was running around 2-3 feet which is unusual in my sheltered cove but the wind (gale force, gusting to 55 knots) was driving the surf right into the beach at the perfect angle. I was beginning to get concerned about how odd my Excal was sounding but then I hit a target which turned out to be an encrusted piece of iron, then another target which was an old anchor chain. I had experienced wierd feedback from my Excal on Sunday while helping a friend find his surveyors pins under some high voltage hydro lines, now my machine was sounding odd and I wondered if I had damaged it on my last hunt on Sunday.
All the knobs were in the right positions and I made some minor adjustments but it still sounded wierd. Just as the light was fading I double checked the Disc/Pinpoint knob and sure enough it was set on pinpoint the same way I had left it when I finished finding the surveyors pins. I was truly annoyed with myself for rushing instead of enjoying my hobby.
I reset the Excal and worked back through the lane and then home. I was cold and wet and really POed at myself (I've been fighting off a flu bug all week and knew I shouldn't have gone period)uke:. I resolve not to rush a hunt like that ever again, I found nothing and didn't enjoy myself one bit. At least I have learned something from the experience.
Good Luck Out There,
BDA
By the time I got home and into my wetsuit there were only 45 minutes before dark so I rushed down to the beach, set threshold and got down to it. I don't hunt after dark because Hogfish Cut runs right past my beach and if you want to find sharks that is a good place to look, especially at feeding time (just after dark)
.I noticed right away that my Excal didn't sound quite right but I was in a hurry to get in as much hunting as possible so I plunged ahead out to waist height. The chop was running around 2-3 feet which is unusual in my sheltered cove but the wind (gale force, gusting to 55 knots) was driving the surf right into the beach at the perfect angle. I was beginning to get concerned about how odd my Excal was sounding but then I hit a target which turned out to be an encrusted piece of iron, then another target which was an old anchor chain. I had experienced wierd feedback from my Excal on Sunday while helping a friend find his surveyors pins under some high voltage hydro lines, now my machine was sounding odd and I wondered if I had damaged it on my last hunt on Sunday.
All the knobs were in the right positions and I made some minor adjustments but it still sounded wierd. Just as the light was fading I double checked the Disc/Pinpoint knob and sure enough it was set on pinpoint the same way I had left it when I finished finding the surveyors pins. I was truly annoyed with myself for rushing instead of enjoying my hobby.
I reset the Excal and worked back through the lane and then home. I was cold and wet and really POed at myself (I've been fighting off a flu bug all week and knew I shouldn't have gone period)uke:. I resolve not to rush a hunt like that ever again, I found nothing and didn't enjoy myself one bit. At least I have learned something from the experience.Good Luck Out There,
BDA
A big sucker too!