Has anyone ever panned for gold in East Texas?
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Any Luck in East Texas?
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KevinInColorado
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The main place reported is the Llano River. Here's a post from another thread:
Llano River in Kingsland and Llano has gold in it, not big pickers, but flour gold and a few specs, lots of garnet, but if you are going to just pan, it will be hard to find some color and you will go through buckets and buckets of material and still not find anything. If you have a high banker or dredge you would be better off finding something of a little color. Longs Fish and Dig on FM 1431 usually charges about $30 per person to pan, fish all day. People even go out there to find arrow heads. You can even camp there, but they have no support facilities like bathrooms or showers. Just a couple of old rotten port a cans!
DO NOT go into Sandy Creek unless you have permission, which unless you KNOW someone that has property on Sandy Creek. Sandy Creek is the only water way in Texas that you can not traverse in. Any water way you are allowed to go into up to the flood level plain of the property even if it has no water there and it may be part of someone's property, but still it is a flood plain and legal to traverse.
You can check with Round Rock GPAA, (you can search them on Facebook), and they have outings 2 times a year. There should be one coming up pretty soon at the Haliburton property on the Llano River in Llano. A lot of good people there and you can find some gold there as well. They usually will have a cookout on Saturday evening for everyone.
...others have reported finding flour gold in most major rivers in TX but in small quantities.
Llano River in Kingsland and Llano has gold in it, not big pickers, but flour gold and a few specs, lots of garnet, but if you are going to just pan, it will be hard to find some color and you will go through buckets and buckets of material and still not find anything. If you have a high banker or dredge you would be better off finding something of a little color. Longs Fish and Dig on FM 1431 usually charges about $30 per person to pan, fish all day. People even go out there to find arrow heads. You can even camp there, but they have no support facilities like bathrooms or showers. Just a couple of old rotten port a cans!
DO NOT go into Sandy Creek unless you have permission, which unless you KNOW someone that has property on Sandy Creek. Sandy Creek is the only water way in Texas that you can not traverse in. Any water way you are allowed to go into up to the flood level plain of the property even if it has no water there and it may be part of someone's property, but still it is a flood plain and legal to traverse.
You can check with Round Rock GPAA, (you can search them on Facebook), and they have outings 2 times a year. There should be one coming up pretty soon at the Haliburton property on the Llano River in Llano. A lot of good people there and you can find some gold there as well. They usually will have a cookout on Saturday evening for everyone.
...others have reported finding flour gold in most major rivers in TX but in small quantities.
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