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Gold Prospecting Adventures on the Yuba River It's Springtime along the Yuba River and the Snow is melting fast with the weather warming up and the days being longer now. The Hillsides are calling to be checked for those elusive Gold Nuggets and our Minelab SDC's 2300 are just raring to...

Gold Discovery Day at Sutters Mill Gold Discovery DayCelebrate Jame’s Marshall’s Discovery of Gold in The Place Where It All Happened.Saturday, January 24th, 2026California State Parks will commemorate James Marshall’s discovery of gold at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park on a...

Detecting Old Placer Gold Hydraulic Tailings Me and Gary ( Two Toes ) are back in the Hydraulic pits for more Gold !!! How Much more ? We return to the Hydraulic Gold Mine Pits to see what more the old timers left behind for us to find can we get more Gold than our last trip ? This spot...

Bedrock Crevice Gold Detecting on the Yuba River We are off on a secret mission that's not very secret !!!! We are meeting up with a subscriber to take a look at one of his Claims and give him a little help on where the Gold Nuggets might be hiding . After lunch we check out a few spots...

2026 North Yuba Nugget Hunt Are you ready to find some Gold Nuggets ??? it's time to announce the date for the 8th Annual North Yuba Nugget Hunt The Date has been set for Saturday July 25th 2026 Just like Every year it's FREE to Attend and everyone is Invited so bring your friends and...

The Nugget Hunters Exploring New Ground Searching for Gold This adventure starts with us checking some new ground that Kellen found is it any good ? what's the Gravel look like ? is there any Gold Nuggets we can find ? This trip it's Gary @TwoToes , and Kellen @YellowFeverProspecting and...

The Nugget Hunters Extreme Terrain Detecting for Placer Gold Nuggets Me and Gary @TwoToes and Kellen @YellowFeverProspecting locate some Ancestral Yuba Gold Channel Gravels of the Sierra Nevada . The Issue is it's in a Extremely difficult place to detect at. Lets just say you don't...

The Nugget Hunters Detecting Old Placer Hydraulic Gold We head out into the unknown this is a new area and old working that we have not been to before !! On this Adventure we have Gary @TwoToes and JC the Minin Hawaiian ,Pete and Raymond . We have three Minelab SDC 2300's and two...

2025 North Yuba Nugget Hunt Date Announcement Are you ready ??? For the 7th Annual North Yuba Nugget Hunt The Date has been set for Saturday July 26th 2025 Just like in past years it's FREE to Attend and everyone is Invited Arrive when you can as there is know real start time but you want...

Searching for Placer Gold Nuggets on the Yuba River With Rain and Snow moving into Northern California me and Gary @TwoToes make a run to the Mother Yuba to check out some new areas to prospect for those elusive Placer Gold Nuggets. We both have our Minelab SDC 2300's with us to help...

Searching for Placer Gold Nuggets on the Yuba River With Rain and Snow moving into Northern California me and Gary @TwoToes make a run to the Mother Yuba to check out some new areas to prospect for those elusive Placer Gold Nuggets. We both have our Minelab SDC 2300's with us to help...

Gold Panning & Prospecting Duck Creek We are off on another Gold Prospecting adventure this time checking out a couple creeks and an old Mine Site that's guarded by a Peacock. The life of an Gold Prospector after four days of Rain we get a small break in the storm and we jump on it. We...

Gold Panning & Prospecting Duck Creek We are off on another Gold Prospecting adventure this time checking out a couple creeks and an old Mine Site that's guarded by a Peacock. The life of an Gold Prospector after four days of Rain we get a small break in the storm and we jump on it. We...

The Nugget Hunters Winter Gold Detecting on the Yuba River We head out on the last day of the year to add the final Gold Nuggets to our year end totals !! One last Adventure of the year to the Yuba River we go ! Gary @TwoToes and Kelllen @YellowFeverProspecting think they are going...

Metal Detecting Bedrock Outcrops for Gold Nuggets Look who's back from his trip to Nebraska visiting the Grandkids Flatlander Gary @TwoToes . It's nasty foggy here in the valley so lets head up to the Mountains and find the sunshine and hopefully some Gold Nuggets and don't forget the lead...

On the Hunt for Hydraulic Pit Gold Me and Kellen @YellowFeverProspecting make a late season run up into the Sierra's trying to beat the incoming Snow Storm on our quest for Hydraulic Pit Gold. Our Plans are to work a new old spot that we checked with Lidar to see if it has the same...

Gold Panning & Prospecting Bear Creek Where's the Gold ?? Prospectors Jeff and Brian head out on a cold and rainy day in search of those elusive Placer Gold Nuggets . We have Three Weather Alerts going on all at the same time but we are going to try and find some Gold anyways !!! If you...

The Nugget Hunters Detecting Ancient Gravels for Gold The Nugget Hunters are off on another adventure to the Hydraulic pits in search of Placer Gold Nuggets and lots of them we hope !!!!! We have Gary @TwoToes and Bedrock Bennett @bedrockbennett1827 , and Brian on this trip. I get caught...

Gold Prospecting, Panning and, Detecting Mother Yuba Me, Gary @TwoToes , Kellen @YellowFeverProspecting make our way up Highway 49 towards Mother Yuba and the Gold that waits for us to find it. Our original plans were to do some Sluicing but the River had her own plans so we adapt and...

The Nugget Hunters Detecting Ancestral Yuba Gold Deposits The Nugget Hunters head up to the High Sierras to do some Metal Detecting of the Ancestral Yuba River Gold Deposits. We will be detecting in an old Hydraulic pit hoping to find Placer Gold Nuggets the old timers left behind. Gary...

Yuba River Gold Panning and Detecting Just like most of the Country we love the time change but that's not going to stop us from enjoying the cool crisp Mountain air and the Yuba River. So running just a bit behind me and Gary @TwoToes make our way up Highway 49 towards Mother Yuba and...

There's Gold in them thar Hills Bugs Bunny say's it in the 1952 Looney Tunes cartoon "14 Carrot Rabbit" featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam " There's Gold in them thar Hills " The phrase 'There's gold in them thar hills' is, in fact, a misquote. The actual phrase was yelled from the...

The Nugget Hunters Gold & Treasure Treasure !!!!! Gold !!!!!! We are after both today we start off looking for lost Treasures then as the day warms up we turn our attention to finding Gold Nuggets. our group for today is Gary @TwoToes , Kellen @YellowFeverProspecting and JC the...

Kentucky Mine Historic Park and Museum The Gold Rush lives on at the Kentucky Mine and Museum in Sierra City! Today, the stamp mills are silent excepting two times each day when the Kentucky Mine stamp mill is once again brought to life to give folks on the twice daily tours of the mine...

Sniping 4 Big Gold We have our masks and Detectors ready for another Gold Adventure !!!! Join Me and Gary @TwoToes as we head deep into the canyon to do some late season Sniping and Detecting for Big Placer Gold Nuggets. See who gets first Gold and the most Gold can I keep the title Lead...

The Nugget Hunters Gold Nugget Detecting Me and Gary @TwoToes are joined by the one and only Mining Hawaiian JC .We have our Metal detectors ready so lets get those Minelab's working !!! We are back to a spot that has turned up some great finds including Gold Nuggets and cut Silver so who...

Prospecting for Gold As a Gold Prospector you have to get out and check new areas to find Gold at. It's not as easy as it sounds. You can't keep going back to the same area all the time and think the Gold is going to get better the more trips you make the Gold will eventually start to...

Yuba River Sniping for Gold and Detecting We have our masks and Detectors ready for another Gold Adventure !!!! Join Me and Gary @TwoToes as we head to the Yuba River to do some Sniping and Detecting for Placer Gold Nuggets. See who gets first Gold and the most Gold can I keep the...

Prospectors Life Is this location good enough to file a Gold Claim on ? As a Gold Prospector you have to get out and check new areas to find Gold at. You can't keep going back to the same area all the time and think the Gold is going to get better the more trips you make the Gold will...

Hydraulic Pit Gold Me and @TwoToes Make our first trip of the year into the Hydraulic pits in search of Gold Nuggets and lots of them !!!! Armed with are trusty Minelab SDC 2300's Metal Detectors the Nuggets have no chance of hiding from us !!!! Gary works the road right where we park...

Gold Prospecting Crevicing for Nuggets With the rivers and creeks running high with the snow melt run off we head back to a Familiar place in search of Placer Gold Nuggets. We have found a few here before and are hoping there are more hiding in the Bedrock crevices !!!! so fire up those...

Gold !!!!!!!!!! Short and Sweet

Detecting Bedrock Crevices for Gold Nuggets It might be raining but that's not going to stop us from finding some Placer Gold Nuggets !! Armed with our metal detectors the Minelab SDC 2300 me and Socks ( AKA ) Brian head out to one of our gold locations in search of those precious Gold...

Detecting to hunt for Gold Nuggets !!!!

How to find Placer Gold Nuggets Where's the Gold ?? Prospectors Jeff and Gary @TwoToes head out on a cold and rainy day in search of those elusive Placer Gold Nuggets . With all the rain here in California ( You will see what I'm talking about ) the Creek is running much higher than...

Prospecting New areas VS Spots you've found Gold before Which is best ? Me and Brian AKA Socks !!! Head up to one of the spots we work a lot in search of Placer Gold Nuggets using our metal detectors the Minelab SDC 2300 . First we check the High Benches then I head down to the creek...

Crevice Detecting Yuba River Gold Nuggets Me and Gary @TwoToes head to the hills in his Jeep Rubicon to search for Gold Nuggets along the Yuba River. I'm going to concentrate on looking for Bedrock with crevices in it where those Placer Gold Nuggets like to hide. I'm using my Minelab...

Catching Lingcod and Cabezon on the Pacific Coast We Head to the Coast to escape the valley heat and do some catching @TwoToes With Salmon season closed in California we concentrate on Rock Fish , Lingcod, Cabezon, and Vermilion. After Gary catches our bait fish ( Sand Dabs ) we start...

Hydraulic Pit Gold Nugget Patch Detecting The Last Trip to the Hydraulic pits for the year was the best trip for me. We load up in Brian's Dodge Ram Pickup and head for the pits in hopes of pockets full of Placer Gold Nuggets the size of walnuts !!!!! ( We can Dream ) !!!! Each week me...

We Found a Gold Mine We found an Abandon Gold Mine while scouting around looking for another hot spot on the creek so lets check it out !!!! I fire up my Minelab SDC 2300 to check for targets ( Gold Nuggets ) till our light goes out. On our next trip we will have better lights and more gear...