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!!
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!!