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Hunting Freshwater Beaches?
- Thread starter Oakman404
- Start date
I pretty well ONLY hunt freshwater beaches and do just fine 
gordygroover
New member
Ditto for me too.
No real changes necessary. You may have to tweak the sensitivity one way or the other but that just is part of any change in locations.
Be prepared to be amazed in the amount of trash you may encounter, It is pretty easy diggings if you have a sand beach...A bit tougher if you are fighting your way through beach rock.
No real changes necessary. You may have to tweak the sensitivity one way or the other but that just is part of any change in locations.
Be prepared to be amazed in the amount of trash you may encounter, It is pretty easy diggings if you have a sand beach...A bit tougher if you are fighting your way through beach rock.
I run as high sensitivity as possible, with the lowest discrimination. I dig mostly all signals, as gold can pretty well show up anywhere. Take a small long handles shovel with you....saves you from always bending over or squatting to get your targets. I find my relic shovel works well for me.
lazyaussie
New member
you"v had some great advice above.
i to run the ace with high sens & no discrim & i find most gold in the water so dont be afraid to take the ace in the water just dont drop it.
if the beaches are sand i recomend getting a long handled sand scoop for use both in & out of the water it will cut recovery time down witch means more loot at the end of the day.
lazyaussie
i to run the ace with high sens & no discrim & i find most gold in the water so dont be afraid to take the ace in the water just dont drop it.
if the beaches are sand i recomend getting a long handled sand scoop for use both in & out of the water it will cut recovery time down witch means more loot at the end of the day.
lazyaussie
lazyaussie
New member
you"v had some great advice above.
i to run the ace with high sens & no discrim & i find most gold in the water so don't be afraid to take the ace in the water just don't drop it.
if the beaches are sand i recommend getting a long handled sand scoop for use both in & out of the water it will cut recovery time down witch means more loot at the end of the day.
lazyaussie
i to run the ace with high sens & no discrim & i find most gold in the water so don't be afraid to take the ace in the water just don't drop it.
if the beaches are sand i recommend getting a long handled sand scoop for use both in & out of the water it will cut recovery time down witch means more loot at the end of the day.
lazyaussie
Paul(NWOH)
New member
don't get water in the control module. Open type of coils aren't buyant but if you use the an enclosed coil, fill an old gym sock with sand and adjust the amount of wet sand to the bouyancy. There are three areas of beaches and their productivity
1. Dry sand-Low productivity
2. Waters edge- medium productivity
3.. Deep water-highest productivity for jewelery
Hope you find the goodies.
1. Dry sand-Low productivity
2. Waters edge- medium productivity
3.. Deep water-highest productivity for jewelery
Hope you find the goodies.
Oakman
I don't know where you are located but during periods of low water either from drought or lake draw down is a real good time to detect beach areas and any area that you think may hold stuff. I am from Fl and waterr levels every year go way down sometimes several feet from normal so take the opportunity to utilize those situations as well.
Don
I don't know where you are located but during periods of low water either from drought or lake draw down is a real good time to detect beach areas and any area that you think may hold stuff. I am from Fl and waterr levels every year go way down sometimes several feet from normal so take the opportunity to utilize those situations as well.
Don
I'm currently using my old Garrett BFO Discriminator (bought in 1974) while looking in the local Texas lakes. Most of the places have very shallow soil (0"-4") before hitting bedrock so the BFO is just as good to use, plus if it gets wet not as big a deal. However, there are some lakes that have sand and I have found pull tabs 6" in the sand but very few rings. I believe the rings being heavier are deeper and need the extra depth but afraid to use the more expensive machines (2500) in case they get wet. Lots of rings have been found over the years in 3 feet and under of water. In 1974 after purchasing Garrett's first BFO Discriminator, one lake I looked in the water I found that day 33 rings, 11 gold (2 diamond rings, one a 1/2 carot engagement ring and the other had 15 smaller diamonds), 11 silver and 11 junk rings. I was probably the first one to look in this swimming area. Lots of coins, keys and more pull tabs than anything else. On the BFO pull tabs and smaller gold and silver rings sounded the same unless the coil was touching the pull tabs, but you still looked anyway as I have found a ring right next to a pull tab. Of the coins that day 5 were Walking Liberty's half dollars. I saw the first half dollar in the clear water and it was black. Saw the other 4 and just picked them up. All were within about 4 feet of each other. Back in the day when you found dimes, quarters and half dollars, 90+% of the time they were silver with very little clad. Right now my old BFO isn't working and was wondering about using the 250 or 2500 until it's repaired.