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How about Daytona Beach?

Sorry to hear about your bad day, but a bad day on the beach is still better than a good day at work. I've had pretty decent luck on the beach where the life guard station by the little splash park, do you know where I am talking about?
 
Daytona, I'm not that familiar with the area. Where is the splash park? When I was at Flagler yesterday the beach was crowded, I thought I would at least find a piece of clad. I quess I do need to go to a stretch where folks walk to and from their cars or business with money in hand. I've worked the beach stretch where folks park their cars but no luck. I'm not going to give up,I'm getting in alot of good excercise and beach time.
 
It is at 611 S. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach, about a mile south of International Speedway. They have restrooms too and outdoor showers to wash off your detector after you find all the loot, lol.
 
Thanks for the info. Daytona. I ran about 500 yds of beach at Ponce Point today. I found 1 penny and one beertop. These have to be the cleanest beaches I've ever been on. I'll probably try that area you mentioned tomorrow.
 
Ponce? I was just there a few days ago, found over 5 bucks in clad. I might have cleaned that place out, lol
 
Daytona you must have found it all. That CTX must be a real coin killer. What part of the beach did you hunt?
 
I parked right at the entrance and walked to the jetty, then hit the park beyone the jetty, the water was very calm over there so I went in knee high but so much iron from the old hotel that was once standing there, it drove me nuts. I went at an hour or two before low tide and got as much detecting as I could get in before 1 pm, I hit it pretty hard.
 
DaytonaGold, I went to Sunsplash park this morning. I gridded the front of the park North to South from the beach on ramp to the end of the park down to the traffic line. I found 77 cents in change,3 keys,3 pull tabs and 5 bottlecaps. I was running the ATP and dug everything but what I knew was foil. Had a good time hearing some signals. Thanks,any other areas good? I saw 2 other detectorists hitting the lowtide line but didn't see them digging much. You do any yards or municipal parks around the area?
 
Grunter,

Sounds like things are getting a little bit better for you. I have started to hunt parks but really don't know where to go. I went to Bushman Park in Port Orange the other day, although it doesn't look very old I did manage to find some old bullets and what a appear to be musket balls but I'm not 100% positive. I'm going there right now since I only detected there for 20 minutes and want to spend a bit more time there.
 
DaytonaGold, It has been good hearing those hightones again. I was begging to think my detectors were broken. How did you do at the park today? I hunt some sports parks,municipal parks back home and have had some decent bling finds. I usually hunt around the outside areas of the basketball goals,volleyball courts,tennis courts. I also hunt the spectator areas around the ball diamonds as well as the baselines and some in the outfield. If no children are around I'll hit the tot lots. I'm going to matbe try some yards in the downtown area if I can get permission as well as some of the municipal parks. I drove to BlueSprings today and my detector was crying hightones to hunt the yard around the Thurston house, but it also happened at the lighthouse grounds on Ponce Inlet. Anyway great hunting to you and may your next step be just the right one.
 
I dove with a group of 4 black tipped sharks off Daytona while deteting. They didn't both me. I didn't see any other kind of sharks. Biggest one was only about 4' long and I was in about 5' of water. Maybe sharks are scared of biting whales? Never had a shark want to take a bite out of me yet!
 
Those blacktips are some of the more aggressive sharks, so don't turn your detector on them. They are also drawn to electrical fields,magnetic impulses. Just some trivial info that I've discovered over the years. I recently discovered Fl. is probably the place where alot of folks are bitten by Eastern Diamondback Rattlers, so I won't venture too far into the bush to detect. Great Luck to you, have you found much scuba diving? I haven't been in years but I went to BlueSprings yesterday and it made me want get back in the water. The last time I dove in FL was at JennySprings and the river outside the springs. That was an adventure. There is a 3-5 knot current in the river so I had a great drift dive.
 
Me find much diving? Naaaa just a few pull tabs and coins and lots of bottle tops.
 
I don't want to be rude by the shark bite capital of the world is not Daytona, but New Smyrna Beach. I have to protect the reputation of one of my favorite places to hunt for treasure and to fish. Although I have never been nipped I have seen the sharks swim by me and swim very close to shore. Most of the bites are to surfers at Ponce Inlet.

ttp://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-04-18-shark-beaches-forbes_N.htm

Thanks to thousands of annual beachgoers and untold toothy predators hunting offshore, New Smyrna Beach is the shark attack capital of the world. That's according to the International Shark Attack File, which cites 210 attacks in the beach's home county of Volusia, Fla. But miles of white sand and consistent surf breaks continue to draw vacationers and locals alike into New Smyrna's waters.
 
hunt2day said:
I don't want to be rude by the shark bite capital of the world is not Daytona, but New Smyrna Beach. I have to protect the reputation of one of my favorite places to hunt for treasure and to fish. Although I have never been nipped I have seen the sharks swim by me and swim very close to shore. Most of the bites are to surfers at Ponce Inlet.

ttp://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-04-18-shark-beaches-forbes_N.htm

Thanks to thousands of annual beachgoers and untold toothy predators hunting offshore, New Smyrna Beach is the shark attack capital of the world. That's according to the International Shark Attack File, which cites 210 attacks in the beach's home county of Volusia, Fla. But miles of white sand and consistent surf breaks continue to draw vacationers and locals alike into New Smyrna's waters.
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I am surprised we don't see shark's teeth washed up on the shore here, I remember seeing a lot of them on the beaches of the gulf coast. I have found a shark's egg (pod) fully intact last week, really cool.
 
New Smyrna Beach definitely has more shark bites for some reason. As far as hunting Daytona Beach goes, its really like shooting craps. You can go for days and days and hit nothing, then suddenly hit somethign really nice. One thing for sure is that beach gets hunted very hard by detectorists.
 
Hey fellas is New Smyrna a good beach to hunt? Daytona how did you do on your park hunt? I drove to DeLeon springs yesterday just doing a tourist thing but I thought Why not ask if I can take my ATP in the shallow end of the springs and have a look sea. I was told that it was an absolute NADA. The ranger I talked with said they were afraid I would fine something like an artifact. I said if I did I would turn it over to the state but that I would keep the coins,jewlery and pick up all of the sharpe aluminium items. No discussion,so I quietly commented that how will anyone know its there if no one finds it? Blank stare, its already been gone over pretty good. I did take a few minutes to hit a county park adjacent to the springs and found 35 cents in clad and a ChuchyCheese token dated 2007. I don't think that park gets looked too often. The ballfields and soccer fields and volley ball court may hold some goodies. Anyway I'm back to the public access points on the beach. Daytona I would like to hit that park you hunted earlier. Good hunting to all of you fellas.
 
Wow, I often thought about going there to detect in the water with my ctx but I guess I'll just scratch that idea right out from my brain, what a bummer :(

I call the park that I mentioned to you "Penny Park", there are so many pennies there I got tired of digging them, I had five in one hole alone, I thought the diggin would never end. I have the flu today so no detecting for me but I wish you all the luck my friend.
 
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