10 reasons why I prefer Metal Detecting over Fishing!

[metalman329]

10) I don't need to buy bait!
9) I don't need a boat
8) No boat, no GAS for the boat either!
7) I can do it on land OR in the water!
6) Fog doesn't phase me in the least
5) My detector never gets stuck in the weeds!
4) My prey can't get away!
3) I don't lose weights and hooks, I FIND them!
2) What I bring home doesn't stink up my car!
1) I ALWAYS come home with SOMETHING!

[joeg93454]

very true. I still love to fish as well though.

[reyzer]

i can give you one reason i would rather fish, i get paid to do it and i love doing it also. i run a classic sportfish all over the bahamas for a great family.

but i do love digging in dirt

[nscrcr8z]

i love fishing dirt or water

[dogpound]

when its hot and dry its much easier ta fish.......but i do enjoy both

[beerdoodle]

Originally Posted by dogpound

when its hot and dry its much easier ta fish.......but i do enjoy both

dried lake, we just walk thru and pick em up.................................

[beerdoodle]

Originally Posted by metalman329

10) I don't need to buy bait!
9) I don't need a boat
8) No boat, no GAS for the boat either!
7) I can do it on land OR in the water!
6) Fog doesn't phase me in the least
5) My detector never gets stuck in the weeds!
4) My prey can't get away!
3) I don't lose weights and hooks, I FIND them!
2) What I bring home doesn't stink up my car!
1) I ALWAYS come home with SOMETHING!

#2 is open for debate............................................ ...

[dirtflirt]

Originally Posted by metalman329

10) I don't need to buy bait!
9) I don't need a boat
8) No boat, no GAS for the boat either!
7) I can do it on land OR in the water!
6) Fog doesn't phase me in the least
5) My detector never gets stuck in the weeds!
4) My prey can't get away!
3) I don't lose weights and hooks, I FIND them!
2) What I bring home doesn't stink up my car!
1) I ALWAYS come home with SOMETHING!

smells like sour grapes in here!

[dennis harbour]

I don't get snaged on hooks

Tumbling coins is easier than cleaning fish

Wife doesn't like fish, but likes mding surprises

Take grandson to the totlot while hunting

[metalman329]

Great points as well!
I especially agree about tumbling coins vs cleaning fish!

[Dark Chameleon]

ok downside...just cos i feel like debbie downer today..lol

10) Batteries, so many batteries, detector batteries and pp batteries

9) people, in a boat you leave them behind, they dont come upto you and keep asking, watcha doing?

8) More bloody people, they want you to spend the rest of your day looking for their great alberts lost ring that he talked about 30 years ago

7) Yet more people, dropping stuff everywhere, pulling off those ringpulls rather then leave the bloody thigns on the can

6) Dogs, not the biting kind but the present they leave for you to kneel in, step in, dig in (yet its not always number 2 but you cant tell its a recent number one till your gloves come close to your nose)

5) Kids, another human plague of detectorists, they will not shut up, want to see what you found, want you to give it to them, give them a go of your $1000 machine, insist on wanting to dig for you and making you into a baby sitter while their real parents look at you like your the resident 'wierdo'

4) Police...what the hell am i dont wrong, i havnt been arrested, they have driven by me so many times now they must know my lisense plate, me and probably have the size of my jeans from the backside view i often give them.

3) Dirt, it gets everywhere, heir, face, neck, knees (behind the pads), and in the hot sun and sweat either rubs my skin raw or makes me look like im wearing camo or face paint.

2) Having my batteries run out when im on the wrong side of the park and my rechargables are only half powered, staning in long grass so if i drop anything id need someone elses detector to find it and so many things on a detector are make of plastic so ill spend the rest of the day on my knees trying to find the bits to my machine

1) Bugs, Ticks, mosquitos, noseeums, moths, dragon flies, flies, black flies, stink bugs, horse flies, any damn thing that flies or sucks blood I'll find it.

AND

Just to make things even worse

-1) Coming home with nothing but everyone elses junk, not interesting, not valuable, not anything other then junk but those cops and park workers saw me so i cant dump it in the trash as its already overflowing

-2) The backs of my knees grooved from the knee pads

-3) Yet another pair of gloves worn out and finding out right when you get your fingers on that sharp piece of metal, glass, hook, rusted up can slaw.

-4) Boots splitting in the mud n rain, a rulle of any pair of boots, they let the water in, so you get to walk back with the squelching on every step

-5) That coin find that isnt a coin, looks nice n old n rusted and thinking this is going to take days of hard work to find out how old it is and then ill have to search and fin......yup. the middle pops out in your hand and its just another rusted washer

-6) The finds you thought were but are now slowly pissing off the missus back home as they gather up on the table and shes expecting a gold ring to cover how much junk your bringing back..calls you a junkyard dog, scavenger, bum with a broom, etc.

-7) The questioning, every time you cover more then 40 feet and no beeps you have to stop and check your machine, i mean is there such a thing as a park with no signals, you ground balance, you notch up your sensativity, you knock down your iron discrimination, turn on your iron audio, do a piruette to make sure your not standing on something or something isnt around you and look like even more of a wierdo to the casual people watchers around you.

-8) laughing, yes they laugh at you, they stop when you pick something out of a hole and study it and then put it away carefully, they arnt having as much fun picturing you with something expensive in your pouch but they still return to laughing after a while

-9) Once again trying to avoid eye contact with the spouse when you've come home with even more trash and are going to spend the next couple of hours cleaning it, sorting it, catagorising it, then throwing it in the 'bag of lead', bag of copper, or just trash bag.

-10) the accident, it always happens to us eventually, we drop the detector on something less forgiving them the detector, or the propointer, we pry something too big for the lesche, for out old shovel, or we can now compare our blisters getting that can slaw out of the ground, being so intent we didnt notice out hand were now airware soles, the blood dripping from some 'i messed up moment' or even better the cost of gettign our spare wheel fixed from the puncture we got from driving just a little off the road to park up

Just some reasons that piss me off....but then if there wasnt some downside we'd not appreciate the upside....

[Warner]

Good, funny reads......thanks guys. For a person not yet in the hobby but considering it, a dose of reality helps. In the few short weeks I've been considering this, it's become READILY apparent that this is DEFINITELY a hobby, and not a source of income. The best parallel that I've heard is comparing it to fishing....

Warner

[dan]

Originally Posted by metalman329

10) I don't need to buy bait!
9) I don't need a boat
8) No boat, no GAS for the boat either!
7) I can do it on land OR in the water!
6) Fog doesn't phase me in the least
5) My detector never gets stuck in the weeds!
4) My prey can't get away!
3) I don't lose weights and hooks, I FIND them!
2) What I bring home doesn't stink up my car!
1) I ALWAYS come home with SOMETHING!

You left one out:

11) Pulltabs taste better than carp.

[Coolade]

Too funny!