Low Tide is good?

[tcornel]

I see the tide charts call for low tides at +- negative 1.00.

I am assuming that means a lot of beach will be exposed that is normally under water.

Any correlation to good hunting or is sanded in still sanded in?

 

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[Beach Papa]

It is more difficult to "swing" the detector through the water. Dry air is always easier to hunt in. Therefore, swinging the detector through the air where there is usually water is easier and you can cover more ground. Possibly more productive, but of course if there is nothing in the sand under your coil, you still won't find anything. HH, Beach Papa

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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I see the tide charts call for low tides at +- negative 1.00.

I am assuming that means a lot of beach will be exposed that is normally under water.

Any correlation to good hunting or is sanded in still sanded in?

If the beach is sanded in (not eroding, and sand is soft to the step, etc...), and if therefore the sand is sterile, then ......... the only thing that super minus tides do, is give you LOTS more sterile sand to walk around in and find nothing

You gotta hit the web beach when sand is going out. Eg. cuts, slopes, scallops, etc.... Tides, swells, on-shore winds, etc... do it. If the sand is so hard you can imagine riding a 10-speed bike on it. And the waves are chocolate brown (rather than glassy blue), which indicates they are suspending sand that was/is being pulled off-shore.

 

[dennco2000]

T.M.I.

 

[tcornel]

Thanks for the replies. I will give it a try tomorrow following the tide out.

I just have a suspicion that I might be better off in a park. Time will tell.

 

[foiled_again]

The park will always be there. The crazy thing is that things are pretty much always the same in the grass, and your yield will always be more or less consistent. But on the beach, one day can be tremendous and the next a total zero, depending on tides and surf and who knows what, even if everything looks the same. It's a crapshoot every time.

Hit the beach today and got $3 in less than two hours--I call it very good for this time of year. There was some beach erosion evident and a falling tide. Exciting find of the day was a clad dime at the foot of a one-foot cut at a depth of something around 12-13 inches...telling me that I have the right equipment (CZ7a with 12" coil) for the coming season.

 

[DewGuru]

Some of the best finds I have ever made came off a deep low tide in the wet sand.

 

[seeker41]

you never know till you go!!......... sometimes you just go anyway!!!!

chuck.

 

[bigscoop]

Imagine the same exact location on the beach, but two different days at the same exact minus low tide. On one day you step into the water and it's knee deep, the slope is gentle, the sand under your feet is soft, mushy, or as I like to call it, "Fluffy". On the next day you step into the water at exactly the same place and it is chest deep, the slope is sharp and much quicker, the sand under your feet contains shell and their fragments, clay, black sand, and it is harder to sink your scoop. On day one you are likely to find mostly lite targets, pieces of foil, sun glasses, lite coins such as dimes, etc. On day two you are likely to find heavier/denser items like lead fishing weights, chunks/pieces of iron, etc. Gold is very dense, dense items like heavy/dense rings generally provide very small surface areas to support them so they are more likely to sink into the substrate/matrix until they reach a point where the conditions are dense enough to support them. In the back of your mind always try to remember the basic principle behind gold panning and diamond screening, the matrix is collected in a container and then it is disturbed in a fashion which allows these denser items to travel and collect at the bottom of the container. This same basic principle also applies to beach hunting.