TampaBayBrad
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hehe....The retired boomer with all week free is who I watch out for!
hehe....The retired boomer with all week free is who I watch out for!
That's going to be me soon! I'm going to drive and plunder all over Florida!The retired boomer with all week free is who I watch out for!
NOOOO!! Don't try Pinellas County! We have expensive hotels and restaurants! We have terrible traffic! And.....we have way too many pirates already!I'm going to drive and plunder all over Florida!
There's an old guy here that covers the entire dry sand area of a beach.That's going to be me soon! I'm going to drive and plunder all over Florida!
Has ZERO strategy ? Quite the opposite. Gridding the entire beach is a perfect strategy for him. And as you say , he finds good stuff.There's an old guy here that covers the entire dry sand area of a beach.
He's got an old sea hunter and has zero strategy for where to look. But because he's got all day, he just grids the entire beach one end to the other. His gold/hour ratio is rubbish compared to me, but damn he still finds a lot of good stuff just by virtue of getting there at 4 am and spending the entire day searching every inch of the beach.
For those not from So-Cal, the beaches KOB refers to are in Orange County-Newport, Huntington, Bolsa Chica, Sunset, et al...the next set of beaches that are productive to the north lie in LA County- Redondo , Hermosa, Manhattan, El Porto, et al....we don't have a YouTube "problem" here. I do think everything will normalize, and what is happening now will fade away for the most part- but it will take time. The I-can't-think-for-myself hunter will eventually have back to back poor results at these spots, and then what? He will move on, to where who knows? The lazy I-don't-do my-homework field hacker will never figure out why/when these spots produce, so they will continue to guess and only have marginal success in the long run. The successful hunters will be in the right place-right time more often than not and bag most of the good, as they always have.I've bitched about this for Eons. Nothing you can do. There are a few good 1s , but most are clowns. Traveling so much as coming from Central CA all the way to OC because he can't find the goods where he lives like in So.Cal. The beach does replenish , so that's my only hope. All they care about are clicks /subs. One of them actually buys storage lockers , gets lucky finding some jewelry and then....plants it on the beach for his channel. Could even be planting storage finds for all I know.. Only thing that really bothers me is I like space. And these buffoons will often hunt close together. Like 15-20' apart. And there might be 4 or 5 of them. 1 even touts himself as an ambassador for the hobby. I seldom watch anymore. What they fail to realize is it draws too much attention and will burnout spots. And they don't care...
That's not actually a mistake. Some people run their coils backwards on purpose. I know someone who has been detecting 40 years that does it. As far as things that can wreck a good beach spot. Telling a person fishing what you found. Same for the random person walking and life guards. I try to mind my own business, but always have one of the three run an tell me what someone else with a detector told them they found. And I'm not talking pull tabs. Perfect example was I was meeting someone at one of my spots I'd been hammering and doing good. I was approaching it from the North. Fisherman asked me if I ever found a gold tooth grill. Even though I have, I sez "NO!" Well the fisherman says. " Well the person in the water down there just did!" Only thing he didn't know was they found two of them the same day. So I had to tell the person I was detecting with about the " Loose lips sink ships" story. That fisherman was telling anyone walking down the beach someone else's business.By the way, I was watching a video of a guy treasure hunting in the UK. He was taking his band new coil for a spin after installing it on his detector. So he zooms his camera on the coil, it it was not installed properly. The front of the coil was pointing toward his boots instead of pointing forward. I have no idea how long it took for him to realize his mistake, since I just started laughing and switched to another video. well, I guess we all make mistakes now and then.
I guess trying everything could be viewed as a strategy when your strength is lots of time on your handsHas ZERO strategy ? Quite the opposite. Gridding the entire beach is a perfect strategy for him. And as you say , he finds good stuff.
They will learn later when their shoulders and ankles are toast. I think my trusty old CTX wrecked my shoulder? And I only swing about 3 hours. People I run across here tell me they do 12 hours. Hell to the Naw!I guess trying everything could be viewed as a strategy when your strength is lots of time on your hands
So 100% true. Though there is a tuber who predominantly films Redondo/Torrance. Buy I'm sure you've seen the recent videos from this "crew" where they head north and hit 5 beaches in a day. They basically got skunked. You could tell they didn't know the beaches at all because they've never been there before. I get it though , as your own spots dry up you have to branch out and travel. And this is exactly what I do up and down our coast. But I've done this OVER DECADES and these tubers just don't have the time in. Not to say I haven't had bad days. I've had many and that's how you learn. But I think for these guys it's more instant gratification for their channel.For those not from So-Cal, the beaches KOB refers to are in Orange County-Newport, Huntington, Bolsa Chica, Sunset, et al...the next set of beaches that are productive to the north lie in LA County- Redondo , Hermosa, Manhattan, El Porto, et al....we don't have a YouTube "problem" here. I do think everything will normalize, and what is happening now will fade away for the most part- but it will take time. The I-can't-think-for-myself hunter will eventually have back to back poor results at these spots, and then what? He will move on, to where who knows? The lazy I-don't-do my-homework field hacker will never figure out why/when these spots produce, so they will continue to guess and only have marginal success in the long run. The successful hunters will be in the right place-right time more often than not and bag most of the good, as they always have.
A few days ago I took a little road trip to one of these beaches in Orange County which had been very productive earlier in the year for some of the YouTube guys and others. I've been wanting to check this area out for years. This was just a recon to check out the parking and get the lay of the land. After 45 minutes swinging at low tide the tally was 6 bloburites, 1 Zinclon, 2 nails and some can slaw. Was I late to the party? No, I was early, setting up for next time and the time after that. Just got to figure out under what conditions this beach cuts; it's a process that will take time.
For those who want to do their own thinking but are unsure of where to go, information on where the best spots in Southern California are can be had by snagging a copy of "Detecting Southern California Beaches" by Don Barthel.
Has ZERO strategy ? Quite the opposite. Gridding the entire beach is a perfect strategy for him. And as you say , he finds good stuff.
Seems that the stuff lost in dry sand isn't going to move much unless there is equipment moving around the sand on theThere's an old guy here that covers the entire dry sand area of a beach.
He's got an old sea hunter and has zero strategy for where to look. But because he's got all day, he just grids the entire beach one end to the other. His gold/hour ratio is rubbish compared to me, but damn he still finds a lot of good stuff just by virtue of getting there at 4 am and spending the entire day searching every inch of the beach.
..... Look for where there were the most people and that's your strategy for where to detect.
I think just getting out, moving around, bending down and digging a little, standing back up is a win... It's more exerciseThere was a local elderly retired yokel in my area, who made a monthly schedule of all the sand boxes & tan bark boxes , of all the schools and parks within a ~10 mile radius of him. And when each month was over, he had hit all of them on his daily routine. And then promptly start all over again on his mapped route. Thus : "keeping them clean".
Needless to say, he only ever got modern stuff, junk, and ... yes ..... by the end of each month, he *would indeed* have a gold ring or two. And by the end of the year, he'd have an impressive shadow box of a few dozen gold items, and hundreds of dollars of clad.
HOWEVER, that is just scouting for random modern losses, where there's no rhyme or reason. I would MUCH rather go out and find the 2 or 3 gold rings in a single day , after beach erosion, than to have spent all month scouting sandboxes. There's a different skill and strategy for each. Even though, yes, at the end of the year, the two person's tallies might be the same.
Around here that's the big public beach access parking lots. And that's where the most detectors are, too. Even at sun-up like me.Look for where there were the most people and that's your strategy for where to detect.
..... (knowing word would get back to you about finding large cents on the beach in
central California)...........
Don't lie, you went down there to get FWJ's autograph didn't ya?A few days ago I took a little road trip to one of these beaches in Orange County which had been very productive earlier in the year for some of the YouTube guys and others. I've been wanting to check this area out for years. This was just a recon to check out the parking and get the lay of the land. After 45 minutes swinging at low tide the tally was 6 bloburites, 1 Zinclon, 2 nails and some can slaw. Was I late to the party? No, I was early, setting up for next time and the time after that. Just got to figure out under what conditions this beach cuts; it's a process that will take time.