Mud-puppy
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Up early and down to the Big Water in the dark...Noticed a few things, one, there was the first frost of the season. 
Second, the waves were big and close together and hitting from the quarter....I stood there and looked at the unhuntable conditions in the gloaming predawn, had a smoke, didnt even turn on my rig, and decided to go try another nearby spot I know..small, inland, and sheltered.
Its a place FULL of junk! (Ronin's 'BigRed' kind of junk) Cables, iron scraps, nails, busted glass, capsNtabs galore, nails, pins and bolts, hot bricks, just a mad cacophany of signals, so I thought I'd give it a quick go and see if anything new washed out of the bank and try out my New Thunder coil in this mess for an experiment...
Now, let me say, I've hunted this place easily 100 times before, going on 5yrs. I pulled my first silver spoon, mercs, rosies, bottles, silver rings and bracelets, one nice gold ring, probably $30 in clad easily, lots of brass, copper, hell, even a part of a really cool carved marble tombstone that the Wife just loves, a great big cast iron wheel with a bronze insert, a large chunk of anthracite from the steamship days...(see pics)
Its at the end of a no account dead end road posted heavily with "No Parking" signs....I figured its to keep out Hippies from starting a late night bonfire or a drum circle, skinny dipping, smoking reefers, guitar playing, devil worshipping, star gazing, dredlocking, playing hackysack, reciting poetry, and whatever other foolishness Hippies tend to do in trashy dead end places that they feel groovy and comfortable in.....
Well, I was only there about 1/2hr, pulled two clad Q's and a couple of pennies, made it back to Rosie with my experiment a success, and I WILL just be damned! Theres a ticket! $15! ...My last ticket of any sort was in 1987 for going 42 mph in a 35 zone out in Keystone SD...I was so mad! What kind of decent cop would be out here at this time of the morning?!
I sort of settled down on the drive home, thinking "Hey, I've been parking here for free and pulling good loot out of this place, so I had it coming I guess"...chocked it off to 'Pay the Gate' ancient trespassing parameters, bad timing, moon phase sequence, etc....So I'll just write a check and be glad I didnt get towed right?...
Then I remembered all the coffee cans of rotten 'Felix Pennies' I have sitting around here out in the garage for some sort of 'special purpose', and got to thinking again...advice?...
Mud
Second, the waves were big and close together and hitting from the quarter....I stood there and looked at the unhuntable conditions in the gloaming predawn, had a smoke, didnt even turn on my rig, and decided to go try another nearby spot I know..small, inland, and sheltered.Its a place FULL of junk! (Ronin's 'BigRed' kind of junk) Cables, iron scraps, nails, busted glass, capsNtabs galore, nails, pins and bolts, hot bricks, just a mad cacophany of signals, so I thought I'd give it a quick go and see if anything new washed out of the bank and try out my New Thunder coil in this mess for an experiment...
Now, let me say, I've hunted this place easily 100 times before, going on 5yrs. I pulled my first silver spoon, mercs, rosies, bottles, silver rings and bracelets, one nice gold ring, probably $30 in clad easily, lots of brass, copper, hell, even a part of a really cool carved marble tombstone that the Wife just loves, a great big cast iron wheel with a bronze insert, a large chunk of anthracite from the steamship days...(see pics)
Its at the end of a no account dead end road posted heavily with "No Parking" signs....I figured its to keep out Hippies from starting a late night bonfire or a drum circle, skinny dipping, smoking reefers, guitar playing, devil worshipping, star gazing, dredlocking, playing hackysack, reciting poetry, and whatever other foolishness Hippies tend to do in trashy dead end places that they feel groovy and comfortable in.....
Well, I was only there about 1/2hr, pulled two clad Q's and a couple of pennies, made it back to Rosie with my experiment a success, and I WILL just be damned! Theres a ticket! $15!
...My last ticket of any sort was in 1987 for going 42 mph in a 35 zone out in Keystone SD...I was so mad! What kind of decent cop would be out here at this time of the morning?! I sort of settled down on the drive home, thinking "Hey, I've been parking here for free and pulling good loot out of this place, so I had it coming I guess"...chocked it off to 'Pay the Gate' ancient trespassing parameters, bad timing, moon phase sequence, etc....So I'll just write a check and be glad I didnt get towed right?...
Then I remembered all the coffee cans of rotten 'Felix Pennies' I have sitting around here out in the garage for some sort of 'special purpose', and got to thinking again...advice?...
Mud
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