Silly people scrounging for gold and silver

[CASPER-2]

When the easy money is in fishing tackle ​

finds from 2 beaches - waters seem warm but no one going in - lots of sunbathers - just no water bathers
handful of people like knee deep or ankle deep with babies
small thin silver cross and just a few older thin coins
best item may be the large rusty crusty ball in upper left of second pic - found at one of my spots
ive gotten lot of musketballs and colonial buttons at over the yrs. - I think it might be a small
cannon ball - may be from a deck gun - will have to get checked out in future
actually - still a few bucks here in sinkers and even some lures could be cleaned up (add a new hook) and resold




took awhile to chisel the crust off it - found about 2 ft down in like 5ft of water at low tide


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[trdking]

The pursuit of gold and silver does seem quite silly compared to all this neat stuff!

 

[Red James Cash]

One advantage gold and silver have over any other object is you can always find a buyer.

 

[Hawks88]

Nice assortment of finds. Congrats

 

[CASPER-2]

One advantage gold and silver have over any other object is you can always find a buyer.

Ive been detecting for over 40 yrs - sold just about everything from the first 20 yrs - plenty of buyers for everything
good jewelry - bad jewelry - sold dog licenses - keys - buttons - toys - all kinds of military items - tokens and older collectibles all dug

 

[Pacific_Searcher]

I fish so i love finding sinkers and lures... they are expensive now days

 

[Red James Cash]

Yup Casper but cash,silver,gold,are king.

 

[CASPER-2]

Ive found a lot of all of it - been hunting since age 12 - 1975
just a sample
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums.html
most is post 2000

 

[against the wind]

Good hunt Casper,, looks like you have been busy.
Congratulations

 

[Agent Green]

You have to dig it all,, you never know... nice haul of finds... remember your just clearing the way for the treasure signals

 

[Professor of Engineering]

That is sure a lot of fishing recoveries!

July is coming soon!

 

[park pirate]

Nice finds Casper so what do you do with all of the fishing tackle you find ?

 

[sprailroad]

You know in a way, it's like preforming a "community service" I tell people, not only are we removing lead from the water, but the "Hooks" could ruin a persons whole day if playing around out there barefoot. I don't know, just a thought for a "Public Relations" sort of thing for us metal detecting people to use on the rare occasion we encounter "some" people. Nice day you had there Casper.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Its not always about the gold and silver. "Treasure is in the eye of the beholder (finder)" Nice finds Casper.

 

[CASPER-2]

You know in a way, it's like preforming a "community service" I tell people, not only are we removing lead from the water, but the "Hooks" could ruin a persons whole day if playing around out there barefoot. I don't know, just a thought for a "Public Relations" sort of thing for us metal detecting people to use on the rare occasion we encounter "some" people. Nice day you had there Casper.

I have sent pics of lures with hooks along with lead taken out - broken glass finds - lkives and other trash to government officials - they helped against possible
legislation against metal detecting a few yrs back

 

[CASPER-2]

Nice finds Casper so what do you do with all of the fishing tackle you find ?

years ago I had a tag sale (yard sale) and I put out a box of good sinkers - like 10 cents for small ones and 25c for larger
all sold - and I had box of lures I cleaned and replaced hooks and sold for like $1 a piece - think made like $50+
Ive saved most now since 2000 - I easily have over 400 lbs in sinkers and like 3 shoe boxes full of lures - if I ever
retire - figure I can take time to clean them and sell them - bad sinkers I can remelt and make new ones if I want and
get more money - I used to salt water fish a lot yrs ago and have molds already for bell sinkers and pyramids in
4 different sizes - does not take long to make new ones and easy to sell if you ask below store prices
most from last year - and I did not get out that much
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums4878-picture1552727.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums4878-picture1552726.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums4878-picture1552725.html

 

[CASPER-2]

the square tub - can not even budge
most of the jugs weigh about 50 lbs each

 

[park pirate]

years ago I had a tag sale (yard sale) and I put out a box of good sinkers - like 10 cents for small ones and 25c for larger
all sold - and I had box of lures I cleaned and replaced hooks and sold for like $1 a piece - think made like $50+
Ive saved most now since 2000 - I easily have over 400 lbs in sinkers and like 3 shoe boxes full of lures - if I ever
retire - figure I can take time to clean them and sell them - bad sinkers I can remelt and make new ones if I want and
get more money - I used to salt water fish a lot yrs ago and have molds already for bell sinkers and pyramids in
4 different sizes - does not take long to make new ones and easy to sell if you ask below store prices
most from last year - and I did not get out that much
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums4878-picture1552727.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums4878-picture1552726.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums4878-picture1552725.html

Wow man that's awesome that's a lot of lead that's so cool you make money of it...

 

[CASPER-2]

long ago - used to melt them down and make musketballs for blackpowder
then melted found ones -along with any other scrap lead found and make new sinker to use and sell
then I melted to make weights for dive belts which I also have mold for
I know lot of guys that just throw them away - some will give to fishermen when they leave the beach
one guy said he had a spot way out at low tide that he wuld bury them - he said if I ever go to "his"
beach and get a huge man hole cover signal way out at low tide - that its probably his cache of sinkers

 

[CASPER-2]

first pick far right lure - is blue and chrome Kastmaster lure with feathered hook - they sell for round 7.99
could probably easily get half that to a guy on the beach - so it can pay to save them
what bothers me is I hit a lot of fishing areas that used to be swimming areas - many guys wont cause they don't want to dig this stuff
but ive gotten a lot of old gold in these areas
but the two spots I got this stuff from are swimming spots that they fish at - I'm sure a few people have found them the bad way
over the yrs