LawrencetheMDer
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- Feb 22, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
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Minelab Manticore, Minelab CTX3030 w 11" and 17" DD coils,
Minelab Excalibur II w 10" coil, Equinox 800 (4) w 11" and 15" coils,
Troy Shadow x2 w 7" coil, Pointers; Garrett Carrot, Pro Find 35,
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
The other day I mentioned that sometimes targets just disappear when trying to recover them. One reason, as stated earlier, was that the target may have fallen deeper into the hole beyond detector range. The moral of that story was to be sure to take one more deep scoop from the hole and the results may surprise you. Yesterday while detecting the surf I discovered another reason why targets will disappear, at least in the water - it might swim away!
I was in about 3 ft of crystal clear water MDing the surf when I came upon a broken-up signal on a rough patch of bottom. To get a better idea of the signal and decide to dig or not, I was swinging the coil back-and-forth over/on the rough patch when it swam away! It was some kind of flat bottom fish, not a stingray, and blended in perfectly with the bottom. The fish must have had a hook in it or ate something metal that I was detecting because the signal disappear with the fish!
Now that is some fish story.
I was in about 3 ft of crystal clear water MDing the surf when I came upon a broken-up signal on a rough patch of bottom. To get a better idea of the signal and decide to dig or not, I was swinging the coil back-and-forth over/on the rough patch when it swam away! It was some kind of flat bottom fish, not a stingray, and blended in perfectly with the bottom. The fish must have had a hook in it or ate something metal that I was detecting because the signal disappear with the fish!
Now that is some fish story.
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