I went out for a 4-hour hunt yesterday with NuBlu. We’ve had, as many of you have seen in the news, tons of rain for most of the week with some gusty winds causing rough surf conditions. The surf began dying down on Friday. When I got to the beach, the section I started off had what I would actually call a cut for South Beach. 
However, the wet sand I would’ve hunted in that area had a 2’-3’ foot layer of seaweed almost looking like a big haystack. 
Not huntable. Getting in the water nearshore was not workable either due to the seaweed. It was 3 hours before low tide so I went further out but there was not much I could hunt as the water was still a bit deep. It was very frustrating and annoying. 
As I moved north, there were openings near shore I tried to explore. I went back and forth trying to find something! I pulled more can slaw and “can bracelets” in the first 2 hours than I think I have on any hunt there ever. I was considering that if huntable conditions at some point did not improve for me I was going to drastically cut my hunt short. I was also supposed to meet up with Sexton who had started north of me.
It was over an hour when I got my 1st coin.
I got off to do a little patch of wet sand that looked promising and came up with a “me” penny. At around the 2-hour mark, I thought I saw Sexton in the distance. and maybe another 2 pirates. 
As I continued to work north, they were all gone by the time I got to my halfway turnaround point. I had imagined that they packed it in and left. My strategy on the return was to work the deeper water. It was here where almost all the few good targets I got came from at the lowest point of the low tide. I was at my “Buoyancy Retrieval Limit” for most of those coins. At home, I was surprised at the Sacagawea dollar coin and my 1st Wheatie of the year.
I had 2 hunts last weekend. One on Good Friday at another beach on my rotation where I pulled a silver ring and a fake Cartier. Last Sunday, I had a similar hunt on South Beach, but I was able to pull in better goodies; another Samsung phone and a pair of semi-toasted Ray Bans with good lenses. Interestingly, I also pulled a Sacagawea in deep water on that hunt. On that day, I had seen some Sargassum come in, but I still felt it was normal. We are now at abnormal levels. The sargassum near shore is still not the 1-2’ carpet it was a few years back, but it is enough to make swinging a coil through it unworkable. I noticed a young couple that was about to go into the water get deterred by the seaweed and just head back to their lounge chairs. I am going to go back and look at my notes for the last time we had this Sargassum Invasion and see what I did. However, I feel that the next few months does not bode well.
However, the wet sand I would’ve hunted in that area had a 2’-3’ foot layer of seaweed almost looking like a big haystack. Not huntable. Getting in the water nearshore was not workable either due to the seaweed. It was 3 hours before low tide so I went further out but there was not much I could hunt as the water was still a bit deep. It was very frustrating and annoying. As I moved north, there were openings near shore I tried to explore. I went back and forth trying to find something! I pulled more can slaw and “can bracelets” in the first 2 hours than I think I have on any hunt there ever. I was considering that if huntable conditions at some point did not improve for me I was going to drastically cut my hunt short. I was also supposed to meet up with Sexton who had started north of me.It was over an hour when I got my 1st coin.
I got off to do a little patch of wet sand that looked promising and came up with a “me” penny. At around the 2-hour mark, I thought I saw Sexton in the distance. and maybe another 2 pirates. As I continued to work north, they were all gone by the time I got to my halfway turnaround point. I had imagined that they packed it in and left. My strategy on the return was to work the deeper water. It was here where almost all the few good targets I got came from at the lowest point of the low tide. I was at my “Buoyancy Retrieval Limit” for most of those coins. At home, I was surprised at the Sacagawea dollar coin and my 1st Wheatie of the year.I had 2 hunts last weekend. One on Good Friday at another beach on my rotation where I pulled a silver ring and a fake Cartier. Last Sunday, I had a similar hunt on South Beach, but I was able to pull in better goodies; another Samsung phone and a pair of semi-toasted Ray Bans with good lenses. Interestingly, I also pulled a Sacagawea in deep water on that hunt. On that day, I had seen some Sargassum come in, but I still felt it was normal. We are now at abnormal levels. The sargassum near shore is still not the 1-2’ carpet it was a few years back, but it is enough to make swinging a coil through it unworkable. I noticed a young couple that was about to go into the water get deterred by the seaweed and just head back to their lounge chairs. I am going to go back and look at my notes for the last time we had this Sargassum Invasion and see what I did. However, I feel that the next few months does not bode well.
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