Sorry gang, my posts tend to be picture heavy...
Thanks Y'all! Fire Fighter - I've got a buddy in Appleton, don't know how close that is to you but he was telling me about the cold and blowing snow the other day, and all I can say to that is ..... BLECH! I have come to hate snow, so, I guess I am a true Floridian again after 36 years away. My buddy comes down here for 10 weeks a year in the winter to get in some beach swing time, if you can make it this way for a vacation sometime, give a shout, I'll show you some good beaches.
Personally, I moved from Albuquerque New Mexico to Panama City Beach in 2010 and started detecting Feb of 2011, so I don't know if I'd call myself an "expert", just a waterlogged guy with a lot of swingtime in the water. I am starting to really click with my Surf PI now and getting some of the really deep whispers that have turned into GOLD for me, the best was a size 11-1/2 8.9 gram 14K in about 10 inches of sand in chest deep water. It's all about time on the MD and getting to be "one with the machine". The best tip I can pass on is to get into the natural cuts, the ring from above was less than 5 feet from the waters edge, all around me the water was just knee deep but I found a spot where the current was cutting a trough about 20 yards long and it was as I said chest deep. The last 3 rings all came from cuts like this - 4.4 gram small 14K band, 5.7 gram 10K size 12-1/2 (sold for $100) and the ring mentioned earlier. All were deep and had obviously been there a while, and I got all 3 in the span of a month.
Here's the summer's results from just ONE of the 80+ miles of beaches I hunt.....
Here's one I recovered for a fellow veteran who was here on leave and lost his ring on July 13 (I recovered it on Aug 6th) "somewhere between the sandbar and the beach out back of the Chateau Resort". He had to go back to England where he is stationed before I ever got word of his loss. He is once again wearing his wedding ring thanks to the Surf PI. The recovery was made just a couple hundred yards to the left of the picture above. Here's the link to the story on Lost My Stuff:
If anyone wants to see my photo albums on Facebook, I have tons of pic's in them. I am on facebook as "Roy Cobb" from Freeport Fl and use the same avatar as here. Send me a friend request and I'll approve it. I also post on FB anytime I am going to be near a beach webcam so all you snowbound folks can watch and live vicariously through me. My usual MD days are Tu-We-Thu (MY days off from work - BLECH again, but that's another story... :lol::lol: )
Happy Hunting!!!
