so you get a nice cut

[davest]

like 3 or 4 ft out of a beach shoreline. Should you detect the area directly under or along the cut, or fan out further to the waters edge?

are the heavy goodies likely to travel very far? or do they just dig deeper with each wave?

 

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[baywalker]

From the cut as far out as you can go.

 

[smokeythecat]

I did that today and got some wondrous aluminum and a penny and quarter.

 

[Jason in Enid]

From the cut as far out as you can go.

+1 to this!

 

[Diver_Down]

From my experience, the heaviest of targets won't be swept down the beach face, but will be deposited at the base (within a coil sweep). To put it in context with modern clad, quarters will be found at the base where as zincolns will be further down the beach face. Of course, if you are pressed for time, then a thorough zig-zag search pattern up and down the beach face will yield the most. However, if you are on a quick strike, a walk down the cut and back will yield the heavies.

 

[S.S.Tupperware]

I do a lil zig zag til I find the sweet spot...

 

[DrJoePrime]

Depends on the cut ... but generally the heavies stay close to the cut. However the BEST times are when you find the pockets. These can be anywhere from 10' to 50' away and most definitely worth searching for!

On the last occasion my buddy and I spent three days emptying out two adjacent pockets about 20' away from a huge cut. The cut itself had nothing.

 

[S.S.Tupperware]

Hence the need for the zig zag to find the spot...

 

[Sandman]

Read how the master does it. The Golden Olde

 

[smokeythecat]

My daughter found a pocket from a corps of engineers "screen dump" and we pulled out a zillion sinkers, a quarter mile of fishing line w swivels three eight reale coins (no dates) some misc brass stuff and she found a half escudo in the same hole.

 

[bigscoop]

This is where the local guy certainly has the advantage. Finding a cut or washout or runnel or hole at a badly sanded in beach may not net you anything but sunglasses, pull tabs, can slaw, and a few coins...."a lot of lighter crap." On the other hand, find these same features that present hard/firm bottoms and you just night discover a true honey hole. I see pictures posted all the time showing really nice cuts, cuts that are three foot deep in five feet of very soft sand - still got two feet to go before the firmer/harder layers can even be reached, the poster complaining that he didn't find a darn thing in that awesome cut. Gold is very dense and it's just going to keep right on sinking until it hits a layer that is dense enough to support it.

 

[DrJoePrime]

I just had to post this delicious cut from a few years back. Nothing special at the big cut .. but... at the scallops marked I picked up 10 rings over a weekend..8 of which were silver. No gold but still a lot of fun.