Bigpoppa
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- Feb 11, 2012
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ML Excal II
ML Sov GT
Compass 77B
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Elephant Beach Breaks The Slump- It's Karmarrific !!
First of all I would like to THANK all of my supporters and motivators on the forums, which helped me get through this gold slump...
I would especially like to thank Tom, Brian & Dave who sent me all the good karma and necessary motivation to get up and going early yesterday and hit one of the more affluent beaches in my area... Thanks Guys !!!
Getting tired of just finding piles of Cladzilla I took some others advice and hit
a spot I hadn't been to in awhile, which caters to a wealthier crowd than my home turf ..Amongst the South Jersey crew we refer to the spot as Elephant Beach or Golden Miss Lucy...
As soon as the youngest left for school I busted out my new F&S boots and headed down for what would be just after low tide..I immediately busted out my trusty binoculars and scanned the beach for any low spots or ones holding embedded rocks and shells..I found my target spot just south and kicked up some sand and was on my way..
As soon as I turned on my machine I was greeted by a pyramid sinker...The next signal again was another sinker...I thought that was certainly a good sign...
Less than 10 minutes into the hunt and on only my fourth hole I was greeted by a jumbo silver men's chain...One look at it's battleship gray color and I knew it was a keeper..
I continued gridding the area, but mostly at the bottom as I still had alot of space to cover and the tide was already coming in...The spot continued giving up heavy junk items and a few more sinkers, but very few coins at this point..
About an hour and half into the hunt after finding about 6 bottlecaps in a row, all of a sudden pops out my first gold ring in quite awhile..WOO HOO #2 !! You know you have a winner when the quality is so nice that you don't even need to look at the markings..
As the tide continued in I finished most of the area I had targeted and now I moved up top to the wind eroded banks and mounds..
This is where I started finding some clad almost immediately and probably 5 finds were right on the surface clearly exposed..
Was hoping to make it a record three keeper day, but after 4 hours I called it quits...
Beautiful day out with all of the sunshine, but a bit windy...Once you get a few keepers in your pocket, it seems that it just gets prettier and prettier down by the water...
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME !!!
Good Luck & Happy Hunting to you all nd THANKS AGAIN !!!
TOTALS FOR THE DAY:
$3.26 in Clad...few copper pennies and greenies, but no real oldies
1- Men's 14K Stamped White & Yellow Gold Ring 8.2 Grams
1- Men's .925 Italy Silver Chain 44 Grams
1- Bullet round
A Nice little Pile of Fishing Sinkers
A Huge pile of Metallic Human Waste for the trash heap
First of all I would like to THANK all of my supporters and motivators on the forums, which helped me get through this gold slump...
I would especially like to thank Tom, Brian & Dave who sent me all the good karma and necessary motivation to get up and going early yesterday and hit one of the more affluent beaches in my area... Thanks Guys !!!
Getting tired of just finding piles of Cladzilla I took some others advice and hit
a spot I hadn't been to in awhile, which caters to a wealthier crowd than my home turf ..Amongst the South Jersey crew we refer to the spot as Elephant Beach or Golden Miss Lucy...
As soon as the youngest left for school I busted out my new F&S boots and headed down for what would be just after low tide..I immediately busted out my trusty binoculars and scanned the beach for any low spots or ones holding embedded rocks and shells..I found my target spot just south and kicked up some sand and was on my way..
As soon as I turned on my machine I was greeted by a pyramid sinker...The next signal again was another sinker...I thought that was certainly a good sign...
Less than 10 minutes into the hunt and on only my fourth hole I was greeted by a jumbo silver men's chain...One look at it's battleship gray color and I knew it was a keeper..
I continued gridding the area, but mostly at the bottom as I still had alot of space to cover and the tide was already coming in...The spot continued giving up heavy junk items and a few more sinkers, but very few coins at this point..
About an hour and half into the hunt after finding about 6 bottlecaps in a row, all of a sudden pops out my first gold ring in quite awhile..WOO HOO #2 !! You know you have a winner when the quality is so nice that you don't even need to look at the markings..
As the tide continued in I finished most of the area I had targeted and now I moved up top to the wind eroded banks and mounds..
This is where I started finding some clad almost immediately and probably 5 finds were right on the surface clearly exposed..
Was hoping to make it a record three keeper day, but after 4 hours I called it quits...
Beautiful day out with all of the sunshine, but a bit windy...Once you get a few keepers in your pocket, it seems that it just gets prettier and prettier down by the water...
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME !!!
Good Luck & Happy Hunting to you all nd THANKS AGAIN !!!
TOTALS FOR THE DAY:
$3.26 in Clad...few copper pennies and greenies, but no real oldies
1- Men's 14K Stamped White & Yellow Gold Ring 8.2 Grams
1- Men's .925 Italy Silver Chain 44 Grams
1- Bullet round
A Nice little Pile of Fishing Sinkers
A Huge pile of Metallic Human Waste for the trash heap
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