Anyone detect only in one area?

[Crunchyhippo]

I know you can't believe everything on Youtube, but I see this one guy who ONLY seems to ever detect in the water (i.e. waist or higher). He seems pretty good at it (he says he normally gets at least one ring every trip, as unbelievable as that sounds). When he isn't getting hits at one beach, he doesn't move up to the surf or the dry sand to try his luck there - he says "time to move to a different beach"(!) It seems like it would be a challenge to find parking that way, especially weekends on the barrier islands with their finite parking spaces. I guess that's when you park in the pricey parking decks and have to walk 1/2 mile to the beach while lugging your equipment.

Are there others here who only detect in the dry sand/surf/water, also, and nothing else? Kind of like a specialization?

 

[cudamark]

I know some folks with medical issues that prevents them from hunting the water, or, dry sand.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

I am 95% a beach hunter and at least 75% of that is in the water. I do hunt different beaches and have hunted multiple beaches on the same day depending on how the day goes at a paticular beach. If Im hunting west coast beaches it is at least a 6 hour hunt due to the long drive from home.

 

[ARC]

I am 95% a beach hunter and at least 75% of that is in the water. I do hunt different beaches and have hunted multiple beaches on the same day depending on how the day goes at a paticular beach. If Im hunting west coast beaches it is at least a 6 hour hunt due to the long drive from home.

Yep....
TH will drive across the state for a pull tab :P

I think he collects them is why

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Yep....
TH will drive across the state for a pull tab :P

I think he collects them is why

Shhhhh, others will start hunting pull tabs.🤫

 

[OBN]

I've not hunted the wet or dry sand since 2018? Water only now and I stay at the same spot/beach the full hunt. And most hunts are 3 to 5 hours, and I do the low tides only. When hunting I look for low areas in the water, I watch the water level on my body to judge the lowest area of the low spots. If I'm finding nothing I just keep hunting until I do, some of my hunts I will dig less than 10 targets.

There is a practice of stick and move, or run and gun. Where you look a beach over ....... for cuts or scallops from shore then you go in and check it out, if your finding nothing you run to another spot and try that one.. the whole idea is to find targets that show someone was here, or the place has foot traffic, the more targets the better the chance at finding something good.. so they say.

 

[Crunchyhippo]

I am 95% a beach hunter and at least 75% of that is in the water. I do hunt different beaches and have hunted multiple beaches on the same day depending on how the day goes at a paticular beach. If Im hunting west coast beaches it is at least a 6 hour hunt due to the long drive from home.

How long does it take you to get to the beach from where you live? For me, if it's early morning, it's 15-20 minutes; if it's like after work, it's 25 minutes, so I'm pretty fortunate.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

How long does it take you to get to the beach from where you live? For me, if it's early morning, it's 15-20 minutes; if it's like after work, it's 25 minutes, so I'm pretty fortunate.

Cocoa is :45 mins, New Smyrna is 1 hr, Daytona is 1:15 mins, Clearwater and St Pete is 2 hours, Sebastion Inlet 2 hrs, and Miami is 4 hours.

 

[OBN]

Cocoa is :45 mins, New Smyrna is 1 hr, Daytona is 1:15 mins, Clearwater and St Pete is 2 hours, Sebastion Inlet 2 hrs, and Miami is 4 hours.

Your not very close but have a great selection.

Ten years ago I made a rule, no driving more then 60 minutes to a spot/beach. Most of mine are 25 to 40 minutes away. Furthers one is 55 minutes, may go there once every few months.

How long does it take you to get to the beach from where you live? For me, if it's early morning, it's 15-20 minutes; if it's like after work, it's 25 minutes, so I'm pretty fortunate.

15-20 is excellent, even better if they are producing.

 

[ARC]

I wont drive farther than a half hour +- in ANY direction to detect... unless its a special circumstance.

Of course... Its less than a 30 min drive to many beaches for me.

Now... i have driven over to the other coast after a major storm.

 

[ARC]

TH...
If i lived where you do i would never come to this coast... there are so many better opportunities nearer.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

TH...
If i lived where you do i would never come to this coast... there are so many better opportunities nearer.

Its nice to detect calm water.....

 

[cudamark]

My closest ocean beach is 10 miles away. Bay hunting, 8 miles. All the beaches in San Diego county are within 45 minutes of me, if traffic is mild.