Anybody hunt high tide on purpose?

[harvdog42]

I've had some good results hunting high tide. One day on a steep section of beach each wave was depositing. I could actually see coins come up the slope on occasion. The coins would then slide back about two feet and stop. All I had to do was wait for the wave to recede and then run out and detect until the next wave came in. That was quite exciting. As an added bonus, there was no competition as most dectorists wait until low tide or there abouts.

Harvdog

 

[Gerry]

I think there was a post that eluded to your point last week. I too have had OK luck hunting high tide, the consensus was if it is a fairly steep beach you may have better luck than say the beaches where there is a fair distance in the wet sand between low tide and high.
Once again a great question, I await the pro's jumping in to teach us youngsters again.

Gerry

 

[Goldak]

I am just getting back into surf hunting. I used to love hunting at high tide for the reasons you gave. Seeing the waves carve out a bank and the coins rolling around in the surf is a real treat. Not only do you find goodies then, you know that it will be good at low tide as well!

 

[Dig]

A few of my better rings have come from high tides. Last summer I found a large 10k 14 gram ring on a high. I went as an experiment (and the fact that we had not so great looking tides and I cant seem go for more than 4 days without MD'ing) I think the amount of sand movement you get plays an important role because what I see more often than not is things that have been in the wet or near wet to dry sand making their trek into the water. That may explain the movement Harvdog saw with coins seeming to come to rest at the bottom of the slope. That being said I still get more hits on a low but if you have had and extreme tide (that pushes up into the normally dry or near dry areas it will move several inches away and make deep items readable as well as sometimes moving them into the wetsand/water areas.

 

[Surfline]

This is an interesting concept. I will try it some time.

Surfline