In the water?

[CWB]

First let me thank those who answered my 1st post on this site. Thanks for the welcomes and all info.
Now here is my question.
How many of you use your detector in the water, if yes how deep, are your finds better?
The beach close to me with the most traffic (swimmers ) also has a lot of guys detecting.
I sit back and watch a lot while there, saw 1 guy go into the water for about 10 min, less than knee deep.
Everybody else is dry sand and everything in between to the water line.
So this beach gets hit hard, but the water zone hardly touched at all.
I use an Excalibur II, so I can hit the water
I think I need to hit the water.

 

[biggmike]

Trust me when I say "hit the water". I usually try to hunt about waist deep but it really depends on the tide. I try to find a target line and hunt at about that depth which would change with the tide. Pretty much from knee deep to neck deep until I find a good line of targets and then I concentrate more of my time at that depth. Good Luck

 

[MrMikeJackie]

The guys on here with the best and most finds hunt in the water. And when I say "in" I mean in. Some neck deep, others float with an extended shaft, others snorkel and snooba. The amount of gold just out of ones reach is ridiculous. Yes you will find gold higher up, some do pretty well actually. But the mother load is in the water right past the point of low tide mark depending on the beach. My beaches are pretty much impossible to hunt so far out, the waves are just too rough and the ability to retrieve a target is almost nil. If hunting a bay or ocean with calm waters I'm pretty sure most of the good stuff has been found already in the shallower areas. Why? Because 99% of hunters don't go that far out. Right now I'm waiting for Augusts super tide. Winter is a whole diff story, same stuff out in deep water, but winter storms will erode beaches and let you get down to some older items that have been missed throughout the years up closer. GL HH

 

[CASPER-2]

I hunt on my tip toes with mask and snorkel at low tide - I will work to about waist deep because from waist on in get hammered
I do own a snuba system and couple of hookahs but don't get out with them as much as Id like
not allowed "in season" - but ,yes there is a lot of stuff out deeper- up here about every beach used to have a raft you could swim to in deep water
there is a hunter here that goes out to where they were and makes a killing
when I was younger - started hunting in 1975 till 1995 - I probably had around 20-30 rings in dry sand - 1995 till 2015 - around 1000 in the water -sooooo - if I cant get in the water - I usually turned around and go home