Keeping The Silver Coming Anyway (shrug)

[maxxkatt]

2 hours ago, TampaBayBrad said:

I lived/worked up there for 3 years in the 90's. You should hit some of the lake beaches around Atlanta. Bunch of lakes up there. Lanier was popular back then.

I have not had much luck at the beaches at lake lanier. But I have a buddy who does pretty good because he can hunt in chest deep water and recover targets at that depth pretty good. Me, not so good at using the scoop at chest deep water.

[maxxkatt]

I used to hunt the Florida east coast beaches 2-3 times a year because my sister lives in Naples and we would spend about 2 days with her family and continue up east coast and have the remaining days of a 7 day vacation on the East Coast Beaches. Those were the good old days and the 800 did pretty good on the ocean beaches.

[maxxkatt]

here is what I created for under $5 from items found at Goodwill. Kind of rough looking, but works perfectly. Clip it to my belt and it follows me in the water.

 

 

[maxxkatt]

not many beaches in Savannah other than Tybee. Prefer the many beaches from Miami up to Daytona on my vacations. Problem with hunting beaches on a family vacation with two grandsons 8 & 10, the wife wants me to go along with them to all the fun spots that the boys would enjoy. So it was hard to get in a good ocean beach hunting session. One day I was hitting a lot of coins and lead fishing weights and just knew there had to be a ring hidden in all that area of heavy stuff when my cell phone rang with the wife wondering why I was late meeting them at the latest fun park. Should have turned my phone off.

[Lodge Scent]

F350 I like how you migrate each year from inland fields to ocean beaches. Seeing that I live only 30 minutes from the ocean, I might have to leave the woods some day and hit the beaches. I like the solitude of detecting in the woods though. Is it a bit of a shock to the system for you when you are surrounded by hordes at the beach?

Lodge

[TampaBayBrad]

1 hour ago, Lodge Scent said:

I like the solitude of detecting in the woods though. Is it a bit of a shock to the system for you when you are surrounded by hordes at the beach?

Lodge

Gotta go early my friend. I usually start around 5 a.m. hitting the sand with a headlamp on the bill of my cap. Then I move to the water around 6:30-7:00 this time of year and hunt till 10:30-11:00. My solitude comes in chest deep water before 10 a.m. which is when the beach starts getting a little active with swimmers. By then, my hunt is nearly over. It would be tough to hunt that deep with the waves on the east coast beaches, but over here on the gulf side we don't have much wave action at all unless there's a storm offshore.

[TampaBayBrad]

1 hour ago, maxxkatt said:

Prefer the many beaches from Miami up to Daytona on my vacations.

Next vacation try the west coast north of Naples around my area....the St. Pete beaches. We don't have the waves the east coast has therefore, it's clearer water too. I can usually count my toes in chest deep water.

[rvpopeye]

Even the junk looks pretty good.😎

Smooth water envy.🖖

[maxxkatt]

16 minutes ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Next vacation try the west coast north of Naples around my area....the St. Pete beaches. We don't have the waves the east coast has therefore, it's clearer water too. I can usually count my toes in chest deep water.

I am familiar with Naples, Panama city area and even over to Ala gulf shores. Most beautiful beaches you could ever hope for and clear water most of the time. If anyone is on vacation near Panama City Fl, 30 miles inland is the most enjoyable wild wolf preserve. https://www.seacrestwolfpreserve.org/

best side trip my wife and I ever had on a vacation. This is the real deal. They take in wild wolves that needed rescuing from across the country. If you pay an extra $35 for photos with a wolf you get to pet and put arms around an older docile but big wolf. I had no idea how big real wolves are close up.

They have several packs totalling 30 some wolves. They are not in cages but in a large area of many acres surrounded by 12 foot chain link fences. One interesting feature a group of visitor can go into the enclosure a handler leads several of the more tame wolves to come to the group who are seated in a semi-circle. The wolves walk among us while we were seated. They are such beautiful creatures. Local grocery store donate out  of date meat to the preserve.

I can see now how deer, elk, moose and even buffalo's would have little chance against a pack of these large wolves.

The preserve also has some Artic wolves which are smaller wolves.