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Yesterday's surf forecast was music to my ears- strong onshore winds, good tide and large swells at my local beaches. I scouted several beaches in the morning before high tide and later, after high tide, those beaches looked completely different. At one beach where there were gentle slopes down to the water, there were now sheer cliffs dropping straight down creating 6' walls. 
When I saw this I thought that I was going to have the best day of hunting ever. As it turned out, I did much better at the beaches that looked less impressive than that particular beach.
If my hunting in the rough surf was a boxing match the referee would have stopped the fight and awarded the ocean a T.K.O.. The waves knocked me down twice and slapped me silly several more times. I was lucky not to lose any gear or finds. However, I was able to have the last laugh and steal some of Neptune's treasure including my first gold of 2018, a 6.9 gram, 14K, white gold band!
I found the gold ring early in the day and I thought with these conditions there was a good chance of having a multiple gold hunt. It was followed by a small silver ring and a junker but that was it. A fair amount of coins yesterday but I had to work to find productive pockets. I think I must have walked over 10 miles yesterday and I was exhausted by day's end. Finding gold always seems to make the effort worthwhile though!
GL&HH!
When I saw this I thought that I was going to have the best day of hunting ever. As it turned out, I did much better at the beaches that looked less impressive than that particular beach. If my hunting in the rough surf was a boxing match the referee would have stopped the fight and awarded the ocean a T.K.O.. The waves knocked me down twice and slapped me silly several more times. I was lucky not to lose any gear or finds. However, I was able to have the last laugh and steal some of Neptune's treasure including my first gold of 2018, a 6.9 gram, 14K, white gold band!
I found the gold ring early in the day and I thought with these conditions there was a good chance of having a multiple gold hunt. It was followed by a small silver ring and a junker but that was it. A fair amount of coins yesterday but I had to work to find productive pockets. I think I must have walked over 10 miles yesterday and I was exhausted by day's end. Finding gold always seems to make the effort worthwhile though!
GL&HH!
You are much braver than me to tackle rough surf! Glad to see you got rewarded for your efforts.
well not so much 
i found a few coins but they were hard earned, i got one ss prayer ring and a silver Crystal earring, pretty dismal, about a hr into my hunt they stated to come in droves 
i seen at least 20 detectorest going over the same spots, one guy had the nerve to run literally run 
he decided to continue to cut me off and hunt maybe 20 feet in front of me with his dual field leaving me more work as i was covering up his big ol holes 
he was obviously a newbie but had yet to learn his beach etiquette 
but im glad the conditions moved some sand im hoping for some more of that real soon =) GL&HH George Happy For You Brother, you been looking hard for it 
