scubadetector
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Being in Michigan and mostly a water hunter, I spend my time in the winter finding new places to play. Unfortunately in the winter lots of lakes are in the news because of fishermen, snowmobiles and others falling through the ice. There are over 11 thousand inland lakes in Michigan and I have been in less than 50.
So research in the winter is a great way to find new spots to hit in the spring, summer and fall. I have been making a list of every lake I hear on the news that I haven't been in. Then I go to Goggle maps and find public access. Or I travel to the lake and see if I can find a way in. Sometimes that requires knocking on doors. Offer to help put in a dock, locate anything lost, clean up their beach. You can get access to almost anywhere if you do some leg work.
And you never know what used to be on some of these private lakes. Behind one house I found so many religious medals and silver and gold rings, I am positive a christian camp used to be there. Some places I have stumbled on were probably a public swim area before the land was sold and the home built.
For all of you just going to public swim areas, your really missing out. Sure you can go hours without finding anything. Then you can hit target after target and find a trove that nobody has ever had a detector over. That's where all the fun comes in. The year before last, I found a spot in a lake with 34 pieces of silver and 6 gold rings. To find that on land is almost impossible.
To have success, you need an edge. All it takes is a little time, and us people in the mid west have that time to make the hunting season much more profitable. Sure I hit the spots that have more boats in them you can count, but finding the off the wall spots is a lot sweeter in my opinion.
So research in the winter is a great way to find new spots to hit in the spring, summer and fall. I have been making a list of every lake I hear on the news that I haven't been in. Then I go to Goggle maps and find public access. Or I travel to the lake and see if I can find a way in. Sometimes that requires knocking on doors. Offer to help put in a dock, locate anything lost, clean up their beach. You can get access to almost anywhere if you do some leg work.
And you never know what used to be on some of these private lakes. Behind one house I found so many religious medals and silver and gold rings, I am positive a christian camp used to be there. Some places I have stumbled on were probably a public swim area before the land was sold and the home built.
For all of you just going to public swim areas, your really missing out. Sure you can go hours without finding anything. Then you can hit target after target and find a trove that nobody has ever had a detector over. That's where all the fun comes in. The year before last, I found a spot in a lake with 34 pieces of silver and 6 gold rings. To find that on land is almost impossible.
To have success, you need an edge. All it takes is a little time, and us people in the mid west have that time to make the hunting season much more profitable. Sure I hit the spots that have more boats in them you can count, but finding the off the wall spots is a lot sweeter in my opinion.