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:usaflag:Danger in Scouting the Shoreline of Long Island Sound!!:detecting:

Cupajo

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Several friends and I have been scouting the area for places to hunt and so far it seems as if Sandy really fouled up our hunting grounds!!

In desperation I even spent a couple of hours at a local state park beach I have never hunted before because of its EMI and deep sand. Generally there are only fresh drops to find as everything else is beyond detector depth!

As I bobbed up and down in the large swells outa the SE (I was in chest deep, 52 degree water wearing a 2 piece 7-Mil wet suit) I got a familiar signal and managed to recover a 21/2 Oz sinker and nasty looking fish hook.

The swells would lift me a foot or so in my bouyant suit and drop me a yard or so toward shore. I would return to my dropped scoop and dig until the next wave came in.

The most important find was a 9' long piece of 2X8" pressure treated plank with a dozen deck screws sticking up and buried just under the sand!!! I am very thankful one of the swells didn't drop me on this thing!!!

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This is one of several such planks I have found and I wanted to pass on a warning about them!!

These boards sink like a rock because they are so heavy from pressure treating and I can tell you from experience that stepping on such a plank with a nail or worse a deck screw entering your foot through your sneakers or waders is no fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fortunatly I passed the coil over the screws and recognized what the signal spacing meant. I drug it to high ground and returned the next day to haul it away before some fool tossed it back in the water!!

Sandy left a lot of these things out there Friends!!

Take care!!

CJ

Oh yes, after two hours I had 1-penny and one badly corroded clad dime along with 30+ pieces of junk and hairpins!!
 
Man! I think of all that stuff when I'm hunting in the water or on the sand. I hunt barefoot most all summer long, I cant stand to have sand getting in my shoes or wearing dive booties even. I got into a place this summer where the sand was washed out clear to the hardpan, there were broken bottle bottoms everywhere, but I could see them through the clear water, I collected all of them I could find, but by gosh, if a fellow stepped on one of them, or those deck screws, or a syringe heaven forbid, it would sure shut a fellow down for quite a while! I'll take your post as due warning and figure out something to wear from now on...Thanks!
Mud
 
Thanks for your reply Mud!!

There is no way to really protect your feet in the water short of wearing a steel plate in your footwear somehow!!

As always, the best protection is being aware and alert.

Had I ignored the signal as just another big piece of junk and stepped on it I could have had a hard lesson!!!
 
My beach detecting has broken me of going barefoot! Everything on your feet is some small help, but as you say nothing short of steel plate will be fully effective and even then... I have been grossed out by what is ALIVE down there too! Balls of red worms, eel like little buggars, various crab/shrimp diggers, clams and who knows what that we can't see, ready to attack and all the more if we get a puncture wound from some sharp bit of metal. Sharks, drowning potential, sunburn and Baywatch flash backs why would any sane person be doing this?
Wait... Baywatch flash backs, pretty girls, gorgeous scenery, fresh air, crusty pennies and 3 or 4 nice rings a year?
I am headed back for the third time this week. What does that say about me?
 
last time I stepped on one of those I was about 11 years old, remember it well. I still get a tetnus shot every few years. Thanks for the warning. HH
 
Pulled screws, nails, very large fish hooks, razor blades, utility knife blades, broken glass and even a syringe with needle intact. I've also seen what stepping on an old catfish or stingray spine can do. No flippin way I'll go barefoot on the beach.

Also had a friends son jump out of their dingy in a muddy area in GA in a bunch of razor clams. Big time infection and stitches.

Nope, no bare footies! Even sandles beat nothing.....
 
one never knows what evil lurks below...... since taking up metal detecting in the water there is no way i will enter any body of water barefoot except maybe my backyard pool...... just saw on the news tonight that they have no intentions of trying to retrieve the rollercoaster out of the atlantic that collapsed in sea side hieghts nj from sandys wrath.... who knows where all those rusty chunks of iron track may end up over time..... can never be too careful.....
 
LOL, SPOOKY. and that my friends is one of the GREAT reasons to lay on the bottom and fan your hand. I have seen tons of things that will slice and dice you and a few times I have been sliced digging with my hand instead of waving my hand over the target. I too have found lots of broken glass with the small aluminum ring that held the top on it, sharp shotgun shell bottoms, razor blades and boards with nails and screws on them. I didn't get cut this year at all but was careless a few times and dug.

Great post CJ. Hope others heed your warning.
 
Watch out for the floating wood too. Couple summers ago I got lightly brushed by a log that was moving with the waves. Had I or one of the nearby swimmers taken a direct hit it would not have been a pretty sight. Was able to get a hold of it, walk it to shore and drag it high and dry. Not out of hurricane reach, so it may be back in the water again.

Thanks for the reminder CJ! We all need to think about safety while we are in or even near the water.
 
I used to go Barefoot at the Beach, I was using my foot like a Horse might scuff the sand to get deeper. I hit a nail and along with that I cut a finger. Went to the Emergency room, the finger was starting to get infected. I suggest that anyone that detect's out in the water to buy a pair of Merrell Sandals. They are expensive but worth the Money, lite weight and the sand flow out swiftly.
 
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