Rat, I dont want to alarm you but I forwarded these pics and posts to my interweb MudPup followers..One happens to be a Doctor, and he shot back concerned....
"Nice ring, but See those longitudinal vertical striations on your Buddys fingernail?, like a washboard?"
Said its the classic tell tale sign of a serious and Life threatening ailment known in the Medical Industry as "West Michigan Wet Bone" ...said you gotta stay away from the water and just hunt dirt silver or totlot clad or something! Said sell the Pro and get a Minelab or a Compadre!...
Said, Its really dangerous! And from what he could see you are in the advanced stages of it! If you keep this up, out hunting water gold all the time, you will be dead or divorced before October/November...
He also said I should probably do a Forum PSA and alert a guy named 'Irons'...
So you all the lurking West Mich hunters are duly warned! Stay out of the Water here! You dont want to risk like Brother Rat a bad case of West Michigan Wetbone! For a little 10K? Sheeit! Stay Safe! A guy can pull that value out of the Oakridge middle school chip totters with a Bounty Hunter, unless you are in some sort of strange Steve Earle band and like running a guitar pic across your fingernail ridges! Copperhead Road!