fishnfacts
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- Mar 26, 2014
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First all I can say is WOW. What an experience. I hope this doesn't turn into a novel but I am so excited to tell everyone who helped me what my adventure to the Llano uplift went like. Remember, I have never hunted raw gold so this was all new to me. So grab yourself a cold one, sit back and enjoy.
so as I stated in an earlier post I was looking at a 3 hour drive from Arlington TX to Kingsland Tx and I got on the road around 9AM. Very uneventful ride until my GPS could not locate the county road, no wonder it is dirt! I arrived at the office around 12:30PM and get all the reservation stuff cleared up and get assigned my camp location. Down another dirt road I go trying to avoid all the washouts that have formed and me in my little PT Cruiser. Soon I arrived at "00" Hill campsite.
Needless to say I way awestruck with the sheer size and beauty of this area and it was all mine for the taking. Soon I was busy setting up camp and getting everything organized for my first ever gold expedition. As I got closer to getting all set up I started to get nervous, I was starting to feel overwhelmed as the river was always there and I could hear it running. Where would I even start! I kept replaying all the post of the information I had gotten from all of you through my head and started to feel queezy so I grabbed my chair and a cold one and walked the 20 feet to the rivers edge and sat down and soaked in the beauty while telling myself this was meant to be fun and not stressful. 10 minutes later I felt good and was ready to finish getting ready. A few more pictures.
I spent Friday looking in all the wrong places so I at least eliminated those areas and set my sites on a good full day of searching up river a ways.
After several spots and what seemed like 100 pans it was getting on in the morning (I started at 7AM) and I still had seen nothing. I was walking back towards the bank to where I had my cooler for a water and took a little different route when I came across this small but inviting formation to check out. Look close and you will see a little crevice at the bottom of the ripples. Can you say man made sluice at its best!
After a small test and seeing something yellow and shiny, why do we like shiny things so much, I dug out to the vey last piece of dirt I could get out of this crevice. Now the crevice was bigger than it looked in the pictures and I ended up with 3/4 of a five gallon bucket to lug back down river.
I get set up with my panning water and my safety catch bucket since I have never done this, after 1/2 hour of classifying I put a big scoop into my pan, I know I should have only put a little but I was tired and just want to see if there was anything at all worth the walk in the bucket.
Here is what I saw.
Needless to say after I saw what I thought I was seeing I put the cons and the pan away to clean up at home where I would have more control and have a chance to calm down.
I will end this for now with some random pictures of mother natures beauty and a big thank you to all and when I finish my clean out I will post some more pictures.
Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoyed at least the pictures.
Ron
so as I stated in an earlier post I was looking at a 3 hour drive from Arlington TX to Kingsland Tx and I got on the road around 9AM. Very uneventful ride until my GPS could not locate the county road, no wonder it is dirt! I arrived at the office around 12:30PM and get all the reservation stuff cleared up and get assigned my camp location. Down another dirt road I go trying to avoid all the washouts that have formed and me in my little PT Cruiser. Soon I arrived at "00" Hill campsite.
Needless to say I way awestruck with the sheer size and beauty of this area and it was all mine for the taking. Soon I was busy setting up camp and getting everything organized for my first ever gold expedition. As I got closer to getting all set up I started to get nervous, I was starting to feel overwhelmed as the river was always there and I could hear it running. Where would I even start! I kept replaying all the post of the information I had gotten from all of you through my head and started to feel queezy so I grabbed my chair and a cold one and walked the 20 feet to the rivers edge and sat down and soaked in the beauty while telling myself this was meant to be fun and not stressful. 10 minutes later I felt good and was ready to finish getting ready. A few more pictures.
I spent Friday looking in all the wrong places so I at least eliminated those areas and set my sites on a good full day of searching up river a ways.
After several spots and what seemed like 100 pans it was getting on in the morning (I started at 7AM) and I still had seen nothing. I was walking back towards the bank to where I had my cooler for a water and took a little different route when I came across this small but inviting formation to check out. Look close and you will see a little crevice at the bottom of the ripples. Can you say man made sluice at its best!
After a small test and seeing something yellow and shiny, why do we like shiny things so much, I dug out to the vey last piece of dirt I could get out of this crevice. Now the crevice was bigger than it looked in the pictures and I ended up with 3/4 of a five gallon bucket to lug back down river.
I get set up with my panning water and my safety catch bucket since I have never done this, after 1/2 hour of classifying I put a big scoop into my pan, I know I should have only put a little but I was tired and just want to see if there was anything at all worth the walk in the bucket.
Here is what I saw.
Needless to say after I saw what I thought I was seeing I put the cons and the pan away to clean up at home where I would have more control and have a chance to calm down.
I will end this for now with some random pictures of mother natures beauty and a big thank you to all and when I finish my clean out I will post some more pictures.
Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoyed at least the pictures.
Ron
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Wow, that's really good looking stuff! I had know idea you could find flakes like that in Llano. I thought it was just pure flour out there. You've given me hope! I'm out near Houston, and I contemplated going to Llano area a few times. Now I need to get off my rump and check it out. There is hope for us Texans!
