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And a cold wet day it was! Barely hit 40F all day and poured down rain. Later we found out it was snowing not that high above us in the hills. Very cold for end of June! Being a nice brother I gave Tom the Minelab SDC again and I dug out the Garrett ATX with 8" mono coil. It is a good thing we have two waterproof detectors along. No worries about getting them wet and muddy, just dunk in creek and wash off later. Tom got two small nuggets and I bagged three fat little nuggets that weighed 4 grams together. Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised when the rain let up and day got halfway nice. Our early luck petered out and we starred scouting around, ending up in the Jack Wade public mining area. I had the SDC back and put Tom on the ATX just so he could have a go with it. His lack of expertise showed in that he found the ATX frustrating to use after running the SDC for a couple days. The extra pound is not so bad but the inability to toss the coil around at will makes it tougher to hunt with. The SDC you just stab the coil around where you wish and if it bumps rocks or the base of the brush there is no issue. The ATX you have to be in constant careful control of the coil. It is kind of second nature for the way I hunt anyway so no big deal but it gave Tom a bit of trouble. Bottom line is we both got skunked, not that unusual hunting here. Today started out really nice and so we geared up to hit some good looking old tailings in the public area where I popped a nice nugget last year with the Gold Bug Pro. I am sure there is more gold there. Tom used the SD2200v2 with 24" x 12" mono coil and I put my 18" round Nugget Finder mono on my GPX 5000. We pounded that area hard all day since conditions were favorable but despite digging a pile of targets no gold again today. 9.1 gram nugget found in public panning area of Jack Wade Creek in 2013 by Steve Herschbach with Fisher Gold Bug Pro I ran low on gas so filled up. $4.79 a gallon at the Goldpanner and $4.49 at Sue's in "Downtown Chicken" so you can guess where I filled up. Rivers flooding from rain as is Meyers Fork so the local highbanking crowd at the Camp is having a tough time. Internet still poor at best limiting me to text only for now. Wish I could post some photos but hopefully later. Supposed to rain again tomorrow so we may dive into brush with SDC and ATX again tomorrow but we will see in the morning. Hopefully a nugget or two will pop out. Main thing we need is for creek to go down as we are cut off from a good many places I want to hunt at the moment.