For those about to Rock…a nor’easter!

[Sand Sifter]

For those of you on the East Coast planning to rock the beach after the coming nor’easter, I’d like to get your opinions. I was fortunate to book a 3-night stay at the beach just after the nor’easter, so I’ll have 2 days to hunt. I’ll be taking my Dual Field PI and my BBS SMF Sovereign Elite with 12x10 & 15x12 SEF coils. With those 2, I should be well armed to go deep in shallow water, wet sand, or the dry.

Low tides in early morning so need to arrive early, as my top priority is hitting shallow water with my PI during low tide, working my way back up the wet as the tide comes in. I wasn’t initially considering hitting the dry, but I’ve been thinking that after the tide comes in, spending some time working the dry might not be a bad idea, so this is where I’d like to get everyone’s opinion.

Beach cams are showing the water rising up higher and higher on the dry. Weather reports in DE & MD are warning of flooding and indicate that water would rise up so high; it will cover about a foot of the coastal highway. I’ve seen that years ago during another storm. Just thinking, if the water reaches that far up to cover the highway, the dry will be totally submerged under water for some time. If that’s the case, I’m assuming there’s a chance that rising water might deposit targets all throughout the dry. When the water recedes, it might strip sand from the dry, putting targets within easier reach.

Hitting shallow water and wet sand are my 2 “go-to” areas, we all do that. But I’d like to get everyone’s opinion about hitting the dry after it’s been flooded by incoming water from a serious storm, then potentially being stripped as water recedes back into the ocean. I’ve read some reports from others who mentioned that hunting after a serious storm; they discovered the storm left a “towel line” of targets in the middle section of the dry.

Any thoughts, opinions, or experience hunting the dry after a nor’easter or other serious storm?

 

[MattBullSummerville]

Try to arrive 2-3 hours before low tide at least. Following it out and in. The higher than normal tide should strip away some of the dry sand but it’s anyone’s guess where it will deposit it. When you find a target in the wet or dry work a spiral circle around it to see if there are additional targets. There’s a good chance especially in the wet sand that you may find a line or group of targets. Check outs any cuts and both sides of sand bars that may form a tidal pool.
Good luck!

 

[Sand Sifter]

Try to arrive 2-3 hours before low tide at least. Following it out and in. The higher than normal tide should strip away some of the dry sand but it’s anyone’s guess where it will deposit it. When you find a target in the wet or dry work a spiral circle around it to see if there are additional targets. There’s a good chance especially in the wet sand that you may find a line or group of targets. Check outs any cuts and both sides of sand bars that may form a tidal pool.
Good luck!

Thanks Matt. A buddy who lives down at the beaches I'll be hunting told me the storm is supposed to strip the dry down to hard pan, totally pulling out all the replenishment sand. If that's the case, then any targets that were lying in dry and/or replenishment sand should be pulled down to the wet and/or into shallow water. My priority as always, is hitting wet/shallow water, so there's a possibility that the storm will have pulled and deposited targets where I'll be hunting anyway. I didn't know about that when I made the original post, but hearing that, I can just stay & focus on my original plan of hunting the wet & shallow water, should be more targets in those areas due to the storm stripping sand off the dry.

 

[tvr]

Good luck and let us know how it goes. More often than not, I found the nor'easters pushed more sand up on the beach than they stripped.

For OBN's sake, I hope the center of rotation is east of the bay and he gets some time with the water pushed out of the western side of the bay to get to some of his hot spots. Those times with the water pushed out of the bay could see hunting spots with the water three feet or more lower than normal. Was great detecting when those times came.

 

[Sand Sifter]

Good luck and let us know how it goes. More often than not, I found the nor'easters pushed more sand up on the beach than they stripped.

For OBN's sake, I hope the center of rotation is east of the bay and he gets some time with the water pushed out of the western side of the bay to get to some of his hot spots. Those times with the water pushed out of the bay could see hunting spots with the water three feet or more lower than normal. Was great detecting when those times came.

Well, hurricane Erin turned out to be a depositor, not the stripper I had hoped for. Let's hope this nor'easter works some magic. Won't know until I get there what the conditions look like, so whatever my plan is right now, that can change quickly based of what I have to work with. Still, hunting after a nor'easter is always exciting, the thrill of the hunt.

So, hoping I get some cheddar, but if not, my wife and I got to spend a few days down at our old beach stomping grounds, and if the wife is happy, I might, ahem, wind up getting my favorite form of treasure!