Hookah

[lowtones83]

i bought a hookah to try at a lake. The depth won't be more than 12 feet. My question is what can i do if there is alot of silt on the bottom. what techniques can i use to tackle a problem with silt?
thanks
keith

 

[BobG]

I'm making just such a tool, to contain targets in soft sand and under water. It might be made today. I'll post a pic when it's finished.

 

[bdahunter]

Cut the bottom out of a plastic 5 gallon pail and remove the metal handle. When you find a target, push the pail down into the silt with the target centered in the opening. Now you can dig out the target without the silt washing into the hole evertime you try to dig or fan it out. It is simple and works like a charm.

Hope this helps,

BDA

 

[BobG]

That's exactly what I was going to do today, but didn't get to it.

I was also going to cut about 6" off the bottom of a bucket, add a rope handle, drill 1/2" holes in the bottom to use as a strainer. It would fit inside the taller bucket until needed.

Everything done submerged.

 

[Royal]

using a Brownie Hookah and in silty conditions, some of it feet deep and have had little problems with it.

I use a pingpong paddle for fanning the bottom. When I first get the hit I just scrape a little of the silt away with my hand. Usually they will not be more than five inches deep unless you are in shallow water where the wave action works them down.

I then check the hole again. If I don't see it I start fanning with the paddle. It takes a little bit to work out a technique but it is easy. You will soon work your way down to the target.

Conditions in every lake is different and will take different variations but that is the basics.

Silt can be different too. Your fanning will stur it up but so what? You can just keep working slowly forward and stay in clear water, circling back as the muddy settles, which it normally soon does. I only saw one place I could not hunt because of the silt. It was a very fine white silt and just would not settle down. The place is full of coins but impossible to hunt.

I was once hunting a small lake in Iowa, I think it was, where the water was do nasty that I could not see my detector loop but I managed to make finds. Wasn't much fun though.

I have tried scoops but they are more trouble than they are worth in my view.

I have also had plenty of luck fanning with my hand.

This is just the way I do it and I have made many thousands of finds doing it this way.

 

[lowtones83]

Thanks for yout tips I apreciate it
Keith

 

[Royal]

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