I headed yesterday on ideal conditions to South Beach for an afternoon hunt for the 4:30 pm low tide. There was little surf and the beach had a large amount of tourists as it was a beautiful sunny day. I started hunting just before 2pm and headed north. The 1st pirate that I met, of the 5-6 that I saw, was none other than Casper! (Casper and Sandman were 2 highly succesful 
I that I followed a lot when I first started water hunting years ago because they both used CZ’s 
). We talked for a bit and he told me about a nice Cartier watch that he found yesterday and a high karat band that he had found hunting in the morning. After the stories of his finds I was hopeful that today I would be ending my slump. After about an hour north of where I started, there was nice amount of erosion near shore. I had noticed that almost all of the pirates that I passed had taken a deeper line about 5 yards off the shoreline and out so I took my line inside that, nearly right next to the shoreline. That’s when the greenies and darkies showed up. Finding the sinker on South Beach gave me hope as those are rare to come by there. I found the silver band that I had to give a 2nd look to thinking it may have been a bottle cap ring...but it wasn’t! It was at the halfway point of the hunt, at just about 2 hours in, that the sweet mid-tone sounded through my headphones. And just like that I was hit by that yellow lightening and the slump was over! 
I didn’t gawk at it too much but I noticed that it had that nicer yellow color to it than normal 10K as I put it away. 
In the last 2 hours of the hunt I found the other silver ring and that nice and heavy Cuban link silver chain. I talked to a couple of the other pirates. One was named Mark and he thinks he had 2 golds possibly 3 so he did great as well. My last real gold finds were on 7/26 - 18 hunts ago!!! It seems the horribly sanded in conditions that Irma brought may be finally over. 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL YOU PIRATES!
I that I followed a lot when I first started water hunting years ago because they both used CZ’s ). We talked for a bit and he told me about a nice Cartier watch that he found yesterday and a high karat band that he had found hunting in the morning. After the stories of his finds I was hopeful that today I would be ending my slump. After about an hour north of where I started, there was nice amount of erosion near shore. I had noticed that almost all of the pirates that I passed had taken a deeper line about 5 yards off the shoreline and out so I took my line inside that, nearly right next to the shoreline. That’s when the greenies and darkies showed up. Finding the sinker on South Beach gave me hope as those are rare to come by there. I found the silver band that I had to give a 2nd look to thinking it may have been a bottle cap ring...but it wasn’t! It was at the halfway point of the hunt, at just about 2 hours in, that the sweet mid-tone sounded through my headphones. And just like that I was hit by that yellow lightening and the slump was over! I didn’t gawk at it too much but I noticed that it had that nicer yellow color to it than normal 10K as I put it away. In the last 2 hours of the hunt I found the other silver ring and that nice and heavy Cuban link silver chain. I talked to a couple of the other pirates. One was named Mark and he thinks he had 2 golds possibly 3 so he did great as well. My last real gold finds were on 7/26 - 18 hunts ago!!! It seems the horribly sanded in conditions that Irma brought may be finally over. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL YOU PIRATES!
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Congrats!! 
I don't know as I've never seen a copper welding stick but I have seen a lightning rod.
