If I have a hunch gold is the area, I will resort to wiggling gold, standing still and slowly wiggling my search coil in short sweeps in a full circle around the area I am standing.
I listen patiently for low tones, while ignoring high tone coin signals and the obvious blanking of ferrous targets using the CTX 3030 in my modified preset Beach Mode.
The secret to using this search technique is to keep your search coil moving slowly but not to step away from the search area until you have detected in a full circle around the area you are standing.
It is very rare to see a beach or water hunter not moving, the majority of beach and water hunters keep moving, especially when they run across an area stacked with pennies and bottle caps.
When you know what gold sounds like, and you know there is a good chance gold is in the area, why move away?
I wiggle in a circle, step away and wiggle in a circle again, only stopping to scoop low tones using my CTX 3030.
The majority of low tones using the CTX are either aluminum pull tabs, can slaw, nickels or hopefully gold.
My slow wiggle search technique helps me to avoid target masking at trashy beach sites, gold being masked by both iron and larger non ferrous targets.
The short slow wiggle aids recovery speed, your recovery speed is the time it takes your metal detector to detect another target after the last target was detected.
The day I found this 22K raw emerald pendant while water hunting with my CTX 3030, I could have easily walked away because of the high volume of targets in the area.
Instead, I decided to spend a full two hours wiggling around for gold close to the very trashy beach entrance.
Notice how my CTX was able to detect the thin gold wire holding the raw emerald.
When you go to the beach to metal detect, there are no written rules to beach and water hunting.
As Jack Sparrows mate would say "More like a set of guidelines!"
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