Going to Daytona Beach

[ROCKITV8]

I will be going to Daytona Beach next week and will be taking my Whites DFX with a Eclipse 950 coil (only one I have) Will this be good to use there and what settings should I use? I have never hunted on a beach before and havn't used this machine to much since I just got it not to long ago. Can I stick the coil in shallow water or will this hurt it if it gets wet? Thanks in advance for the help !!

 

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[mlayers]

Just put it in the beach mode and go.....Matt

 

[RJGMC]

Go ahead and rub it in.

Still have multiple inches of white crap on the ground here around Kansas City. Can't even tell I have a driveway in the back of the house.

I wish you the best of luck!

Bob

 

[ROCKITV8]

Thanks, going down for the 500. I work for the road dept. here in Austintown, Ohio and I have had my fill of snow can't wait to get outta here! I just don't know if I can put my coil in the water or not and is the950 a good coil to use on the beach?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Be sure you do not lift the coil higher then the control box, water will run down the inside of the shaft to the control box. If it isn't windy and the surf is calm there should be no problem with salt mist........

Just so you know, Daytona Beach is sanded in real bad now......

 

[PI PRO]

sanded in is a understatement, there is about 6 feet to much sand right now. went monday, started in ponce inlet, worked my way to flagler, got some clad. not a good report, but good luck.

 

[bigscoop]

I've spent two partial days detecting the low tide runoffs and tidal pools at New Smyrna with an Excal & WOT and it's not been very impressive. Some recent clad has been about it. Need something to come along and remove a lot of the sand, or a lot of steaming hot weather and truck loads of beach goers.

 

[Smudge]

Daytona Beach gets detected hard so you'd better get out there early if you're going to hunt with the pros.

 

[Hangingfor8]

It's been really sanded in from Daytona to Ormond.... My suggestion is go where the people are in the water. Then again I think our water temp is about 59 right now so there may not be many people in it. Good luck to you

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

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