River and water detecting

[altereddezignz]

Can anyone help me out with some sort of scoop to use when river hunting. This will also be used when at the beach. Can i use just a normal long or med size handle metal scoop? I have never river or stream hunted before?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Stainless steel holds up better in rivers and streams with rocks / cobble.

 

[CASPER-2]

SOME OF THE RIVERS IVE HIT - ROCKS AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD - SO NO SCOOP IS GOOD - MASK AND SNORKEL AND FANNING - MAYBE A GOOD KNIFE
I have broken welds on stainless scoops - I use heavy aluminum RTG long handled big basket for every thing else - I had a sharp lip added to mine
and have the travel model - 2 piece - take it around the world with me

 

[CASPER-2]

WHAT KIND OF RIVER BOTTOMS?
HERE IS ONE OF MINE - NO SCOOPIN HERE - THIS WAS COOL - USING MASK AND SNORKEL
DROPPED DOWN AND FANNED - CLAD QUARTER AND SILVER ONE WEDGE TOGETHER IN ROCKS


ANOTHER RIVERS BOTTOM
COINS ARE FOUND IN BETWEEN THE ROCKS


THIS IS A STREAM - YOU CAN SEE THE ROCKS IM WORKING IN - THIS WAS A POPULAR SWIM SPOT FOR YRS - GOT A 1901 IH PENNY HERE - BUFFALOS AND SILVER
OTHERS GOT ALL THE EASY STUFF - I WENT FOR THE HARDER TO GET TARGETS - MOVED A LOT OF ROCK - PULLED ALOT OF COINAGE OUT OF THERE TOO

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Casper, how do you hunt a pond with the same rock formations as your river? A river will wash away the silt as you go, but the pond I went to yesterday is crystal clear....until I touch the bottom, then it's a huge cloud of silt under the 1" or so of weed. 0% visibility with snorkel and very difficult to use scoop due to the large rocks, which of course you can't see until the scoop hits them.
I managed just .56 cents w/15 coins and a handful of poptops in 2.5 hrs, so I'm sure it's virgin water, but soooo difficult to hunt.
A vacuum sucking the targets onto a sifter would be ideal.

 

[CASPER-2]

I don't do ponds usually and most that I have in past have under water springs or are fed from a stream or under ground waters that cause some sort of current
others I know that hunts spots like youre talkin bout - they will drop down and fan and check and fan and feel around until they get it - no one said its easy
I work my butt off in the rocks - you can use a under pin pointer too to help

Casper, how do you hunt a pond with the same rock formations as your river? A river will wash away the silt as you go, but the pond I went to yesterday is crystal clear....until I touch the bottom, then it's a huge cloud of silt under the 1" or so of weed. 0% visibility with snorkel and very difficult to use scoop due to the large rocks, which of course you can't see until the scoop hits them.
I managed just .56 cents w/15 coins and a handful of poptops in 2.5 hrs, so I'm sure it's virgin water, but soooo difficult to hunt.
A vacuum sucking the targets onto a sifter would be ideal.

 

[cudamark]

Can anyone help me out with some sort of scoop to use when river hunting. This will also be used when at the beach. Can i use just a normal long or med size handle metal scoop? I have never river or stream hunted before?

As long as the rocks aren't huge, I'd get a quality built stainless scoop, such as the Stealth 720i made by Sunspot. If you do a lot of prying with it, it will eventually fail....usually at the bottom of the scoop from being caved in by levering against another rock. You could reinforce that area, as I have done, and make it virtually bullet proof. It does make it pretty heavy, but, after a few hunts, your arm gets fairly used to it. Here's what I did to mine.....

 

[ScubaDetector]

How to hunt a silty river or lake while snorkeling or diving. I carry two mesh bags.



One for my finds. The other one is used when I find a target in the muck or silt I carefully pick up handfuls of it and wave them in front of the coil. When the target is in my hand I put the whole handful in the empty bag. I hold the top shut and swish it in the water. Then I take the target out and put it in the finds bag. The bags I use are 6" x9" from XS scuba. P/N BG570.

Not made anymore but if you google them you can still find them.

 

[fongu]

Only problem I have is the water visibility in some of these places is terrible. Hope you don't flush a snake from under those rocks, Casper.

 

[altereddezignz]

Around here unless it is a pond the rivers and streams are very clean. unless it has just rained then they get muddy but clean out very quick.

 

[altereddezignz]

shallow rivers that is

 

[ScubaDetector]

Only problem I have is the water visibility in some of these places is terrible. Hope you don't flush a snake from under those rocks, Casper.

You don't need to see. All it takes is practice to know exactly where your coil is. I have it down to a science.

 

[altereddezignz]

Im not that good yet....