Definitely next time! Check out the recent beach-hunting post "Hunting like a Beagle" posted today or yesterday, full of good tips -- it will inspire you as it does me!
I haven't found tons of great stuff, but nearly all my best beach finds occurred in areas with lots of iron, old nails, bottle caps & pull tabs -- areas where I'd felt fed up, then on a fresh day decided "okay, one more time, go real slow, dig it all" and boom! That's when the gold & silver items emerged. ALL YALL HAVE FUN! Andi