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Started todays hunt in the Rock Garden and after 3 hours of near perfect hunting conditions that netted about 25 bits and pieces of junk and a few clad I saw another hunter enter the water a couple of small beaches away.
I moved in his general direction and picked up a few more clad and the closer I got to meeting this gent the more targets I recovered!
Several fishing sinkers from the rocky area I posted a few posts back and I soon met up with Connecticut Tom from a small town about 15 miles from the small town I live in.
We had met once before as I recall and he showed me a honkin big man's gold ring he had found not a hundred feet from where we stood talking!
Tom is a landscaper and like Craig takes advantage of slow times to hunt.
We soon went our seperate ways and I decided to check out the sand depth 50 yards of so into another beach area down from the Rock Garden where I have been hunting so much for a month or so.
Small boulders were exposed and I soon had all the fishing weights in the pic along with most of the coins and very little scrap metal except the brass snap hook, a bottle cap and one cloths pin.
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I scouted the area and found the sand had receeded leaving small boulders exposed and rich in targets, mostly keepers!!
Todays score= 60 targets recovered in 41/2 HOURS w/more keepers than usual!!
It didn't happen today, but tomorrow or the next day I hope to find silver or better yet gold somewhere in that boulder field.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
Started todays hunt in the Rock Garden and after 3 hours of near perfect hunting conditions that netted about 25 bits and pieces of junk and a few clad I saw another hunter enter the water a couple of small beaches away.
I moved in his general direction and picked up a few more clad and the closer I got to meeting this gent the more targets I recovered!
Several fishing sinkers from the rocky area I posted a few posts back and I soon met up with Connecticut Tom from a small town about 15 miles from the small town I live in.
We had met once before as I recall and he showed me a honkin big man's gold ring he had found not a hundred feet from where we stood talking!
Tom is a landscaper and like Craig takes advantage of slow times to hunt.
We soon went our seperate ways and I decided to check out the sand depth 50 yards of so into another beach area down from the Rock Garden where I have been hunting so much for a month or so.
Small boulders were exposed and I soon had all the fishing weights in the pic along with most of the coins and very little scrap metal except the brass snap hook, a bottle cap and one cloths pin.
[attachment 222401 2-05-12Finds001.JPG]
I scouted the area and found the sand had receeded leaving small boulders exposed and rich in targets, mostly keepers!!
Todays score= 60 targets recovered in 41/2 HOURS w/more keepers than usual!!
It didn't happen today, but tomorrow or the next day I hope to find silver or better yet gold somewhere in that boulder field.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ