Beach detecting

[Sitting With Liberty]

Just a quick question on beach detecting. Where is the best place to detect on the beach aside from where the people normally lay,sit and put towels down?

Do storms and ocean tides bring jewelry up to the edge of the dunes almost to where the streets are? Would there be a best time to hunt that? After big storms only?

Is it wise to get an ocean detector to go out maybe 20 or 30 fee from the shore line to hunt during the day time in the water? Something tells me the jewelry will be found in the water areas during the day time.

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

You've asked enough questions, that the answers would "fill a book". For beach storm erosion, it depends on the beaches in your areas. Each beach faces a different direction, and "responds" to different swell directions, local winds/waves verses distant 'swells', etc... Heck, even 2 beaches, a mere mile or two apart, can have different factors governing what erodes the beach, d/t off-shore shallows, various incoming swell/wave directions verses corresponding compass-point-facing direction of the beach, etc....

For dry sand hunting, there's no "rules", since you are basically at the whims of wherever someone dropped/lost something. Ie.: no different than a sand-box or whatever. But for wet sand salt-water beach hunting, you're looking for where mother-nature "deposits" things, since the wet sand beach is always changing (assuming you're not on a calm harbor still-water-beach). Sand goes in and out with each tide and swell change.

Typically building up in the spring and summer, and typically moving out in the fall and winter storms. But that depends on swells and such, since some swells come from the south, for south america's "winter", which is our "summer" (equatorial storms that can send swells all the way up here). So you just have to check with the aces in your area, who have hit good pockets of erosion/groupings in the past, and see what weather/tide/swell patterns dictated the erosion they were in.

Good signs on the wet beach are: cuts (an abrupt drop-off type sandy mini-cliff on the wet, where it drops down), slopes (where it's un-naturally steep slope at some point on the wet), wet/low spots (where the wet sand comes in further and deeper than the surrounding sand), and "scallops". Scallops are the so-named because they look like inverted scallop formation, where the ocean has scoured out a sideways dip. But it has to be major, not minor summery shallow scallops.

When you get in a perfect erosion pocket, where mother nature has turned the entire beach into a "sluicebox", where you can't move for hours-on-end d/t the massive amounts of targets, you will never again return to dry sand hunting

 

[MEinWV]

Listen to Tom, he is right on the money with his answer to you. I hunted the north eastern Atlantic coast beaches and it is the same there. The ocean currents will classify objects and deposit them in areas according to conditions at any given time. You just have to put the time in at particular beaches to learn as much as possible about sand movements during all conditions. Factors on a given beach, such as the slope of the beach and obstacles such as rocks or ledge and pilings of piers can affect the deposition of materials.

Good luck and HH!

 

[mlayers]

Are you detecting the beach at the ocean or at a lake. I hunt lakes as often as I can. I work the water there from waist up to my shoulders. AS I fine more items in the deep of water. As for the ocean I have not hunted it yet so I am trying to take the advise that Tom gave you. As I will be in Vingina Beach next week....Matt