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I hope all of you have enjoyed my first three articles. If there is any
particular subject you want me to cover then be sure to let me know.
This month I'm going to ramble on a bit about shallow water hunting in lakes
by discussing a variety of topics. Also, you're going to get a Class A1
gold ring hunting tip that I know you'll like.
In the future you can expect to see more articles on equipment and equipment upkeep, digging techniques, types of
clothing to wear, older stuff you can expect to find, advanced inside tips &
secrets, the dangers of lake hunting, types of search areas and
grid patterns, historic articles, cleaning & selling your finds, tips on
recovering targets in water that's just over your head, how to research
lake resorts, more photos of lake sites & lake finds, the best months suited
for finding more rings, coil sizes, VLF vs PI machines in lakes, how to
outsmart your competition, the "perks" of lake hunting, how to recover
targets in the rocks and clay when you can't see the bottom, articles on
summer & winter time hunting and I also have a huge article coming up later
that is titled "The History Of Jewelry And Precious Metals", plus a few
other surprises also. So lots of good stuff ahead in the future for you lake
hunters.
Do you remember when you were young and went swimming in the swimming pools?
When it was time to leave, you showered, dried yourself off and then put
on your clothing. Did you ever notice your fingers? They were all shriveled
up and wrinkly. What caused this? The pool water was colder than the human
body. Now take into consideration lake water is colder than swimming pool
water and that the swimmers also like to use that suntan lotion. Simply put...The water is where the rings are! Ten rings in one day is a good goal to set
for yourself. Being a little more specific, three gold rings in one day is
also a good goal to go after. After you get that second one then you're
really going to have to bear down though. :)
When I first started water hunting I was amazed at how many rings there were
in the water. Also impressive was the number of silver coins I was finding
in the lake. How did all those coins get out there in the water? Back in 1940
25 cents was a lot of money so I knew people had not just been tossing them
out there for their health. :) What was also interesting was the wide range
of misc. finds I was making, and lots of them were not made of metal. Older
pop bottles, marbles, plastic tax tokens, plastic rings etc. Hunting in the
lake made for some really cool finds.
Today I think the swimmers are getting smarter. They are not wearing as many
rings when they go swimming as they use to. They are definitely wearing more gold today than they did say 60 years ago. Accidental
raw sewage spills into some lakes have lowered the ring counts of many
water hunters thru the years. When this nonsense does happen the media is
right there to report it and the swimmers end up finding out about it. Too
offset these disasters some lakes are lowered many feet in the Fall and
then refilled in the Spring with mountain snow run off. Who knows how long
before the lakes around here will be unswimmable due to pollution. Those
days are coming though.
In the photo below we have a paved parking lot next to some lake. ;-)
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