:usaflag: When A Day Starts Out Like This It Has To Be Great Day For Hunting!!--------Right!!??

[Cupajo]

While enjoying my coffee and cinamon roll this AM I decided this would be the day to investigate a beach in Waterford that has "No Trespassing" signs all over the place and "Restricted to Residents Only" to fill in the gaps!

I watched the sun come up over "Tide Rock" and marveled at how still the water was.

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The flags moved a bit in the gentle air flow from the north.

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I chuckled that mother nature had ripped the chain link fence out by the roots again

[attachment 214496 InterestingPhotos009Large.jpg] and, leaving Old Lyme, headed to the secret beach anticipating finds galore, but knowing one can never be sure what will be waiting-----------

I got there just a little before dead low tide and worked wet and dry sand at the small beach carefully for a couple of hours with my GT and the SEF coil.

Two clad quarters, two clad dimes, three Zincolns and no nickels later I am convinced my secret beach is no secret!!!I did manage to clean up a few bits of scrap metal, but there wasn't much of that either!

Next trip I'll use my Dual Field and find out if they also know how to water hunt!!!

GL&HH Friends,

CJ

 

[tvr]

Cupajo,
I suspect there are not many secret beaches anymore. Nice to have some help cleaning up the trash. Hopefully they left you more targets in the water.

Beautiful pictures!
Cheers,
tvr

 

[Florida Keys Pirate]

Nice pics ! Sorry there was no jackpot this time.

 

[Hwhydah17172002]

Time to make some friends who own property on that beach.... Keep trying till you do... Rewards are waiting...

 

[Crenman]

Cj,

Nice shots of the beach.

See if there are any weekend homes for rent. I rented a place on a private lake for a weekend getaway and cleaned house on there beach and got away from the normal scene. If nothings available well sounds like its time to make some friends.

GL&HH.

 

[thevacantface]

If the beaches are closed to the regular public, then they probably don't have enough traffic to have a large number of targets. The key is finding a portion of beach that has seen the best ratio of beachgoers to detectorists. Every once in a while I will stumble upon a swath that was somehow missed by everyone else for a couple of years and usually find some jewelry and lots of coins. Those private beach signs are just glaring beacons to those detectorists who think they are so much smarter than everyone else and are going to be first at an untapped well of good and old targets. You must realize you think exactly the same way as a bunch of others and are also forgetting some of the biggest variables in the equation.

 

[Cupajo]

Today I water hunted with my Dual Field for 11/2 hours and recovered a quarter, a Zincoln, 2-bottle tops, a little can slaw and a lot of rusty steel wire from lobster pots that are used a hundred yards or so away in deeper water.

The water at low tide was waist deep and the sand was very deep with no bottom I could find.

There was an area where the sand was 6-8" over a layer of 1" or so diameter gravel
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Under the thin layer of gravel the sand was too deep to measure.

This will be a good spot to try out my Sov GT "wet hunting rig" one day soon.

There are no cottages at this beach and it is reserved for residents of the town of Waterford, Connecticut.

In summer it is an active beach and I really expected more return for my efforts, but above the water line I'm sure other hunters beat me to the goodies and in the water the sand is covering a lot of targets.

After "the season" no one patrols the beaches much and I had no problem walking in with my gear.

One look at all the rusty wire I removed would convince any sane resident to let me hunt any time I want as is the case in my own community.

GL&HH Friends,

CJ