Digger_O'Dell
02-22-2016, 03:35 AM
Hi all,
Been a while since I've been out due to living in the frozen tundra. Even the water detecting has been put on hold due to winter storms creating huge waves, and inland waters being frozen over. With the past few days warming things up a bit I thought I would give it a try anyway.
I had tried some open water at an old mill pond, but few targets were found. Lots of trash like tire rims and aluminum cans, but I did manage to pull 11 cents from the muck. The surprise was finding the biggest snail shell I have ever seen while going after a dime signal.
After battling the muck, I tried a stream area below the dam. This was a bad idea because of all the runoff from the melting snow created a current fast enough to move a truck. It moved literally tons of gravel to the bends which made for harrowing conditions.
Next idea was to try the mouth of the stream where it emptied into the lake. Turn out most of it was frozen over yet, but made quite a current into the lake itself. Nothing but big waves and aluminum balls.
Lastly, I gave up on the water and tried the woods where I fouls a suspender clip last year. Tough digging as most area still hard frozen, but did manage a bunch of pocket change.
52855
Been a while since I've been out due to living in the frozen tundra. Even the water detecting has been put on hold due to winter storms creating huge waves, and inland waters being frozen over. With the past few days warming things up a bit I thought I would give it a try anyway.
I had tried some open water at an old mill pond, but few targets were found. Lots of trash like tire rims and aluminum cans, but I did manage to pull 11 cents from the muck. The surprise was finding the biggest snail shell I have ever seen while going after a dime signal.
After battling the muck, I tried a stream area below the dam. This was a bad idea because of all the runoff from the melting snow created a current fast enough to move a truck. It moved literally tons of gravel to the bends which made for harrowing conditions.
Next idea was to try the mouth of the stream where it emptied into the lake. Turn out most of it was frozen over yet, but made quite a current into the lake itself. Nothing but big waves and aluminum balls.
Lastly, I gave up on the water and tried the woods where I fouls a suspender clip last year. Tough digging as most area still hard frozen, but did manage a bunch of pocket change.
52855