Your experiences with wet salt sand, back sand, both?

[beachdude]

I will be heading to South Africa shortly for my annual trip of beach and water hunting, and I am debating on whether to bring my CTX this year, with perhaps a 17" oil to get some extra depth. I know some of you guys use the CTX in salt water and wet salt sand so I am wondering if you could give me some tips..

Also, in the area I will be hunting, there is illmenite (titanium metal sand) in the beach sand to varying degrees - sometimes it is as thick and visible as ripple ice cream, but usually the grains are defused in low concentrations in the beach sand.

Should I bring my CTX? Or should I leave it at home and just hunt with my Excals and my DF?

 

[oregon_dragonfly]

if you have room I would bring it along, if nothing else to see how it performs so you can report back with the results, make sure yours is uploaded with the sea water setting here's a vid on a ctx with a 17'' coil at the beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIL4zq1TCa0 dfly

 

[beachdude]

The air & water tests above wet salt sand don't prove much of anything. That dude should have buried the object in the sand for testing. I do find it comforting his CTX seems stable in the water though.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I love the CTX 3030 in the surf. I think it does a better job in the surf myself. I like to turn the gain up a bit in the surf.

 

[Drjohn71a]

Just returned from a week or so on the Gulf of Mexico near Houston and used the standard settings for beach and saltwater on a some moderately trashy beach areas. I've only had my CTX 3030 a few months, but had no problem on wet, dry, or surf. It ran smoothly. My ATPro, however, chatted up a storm and needed frequent adjustments and balancing for the wet sand, and I could not use it at all in the surf due to all the noise. Maybe some special setting could have helped that, but the 3030 needed no special adjustments.