Metal detecting along Florida's Treasure Coast has been pretty popular since all those Spanish galleons crashed and sunk along with their gold back when Spanish galleons partook in such activities.
Informational Resources
- The Treasure Beaches Report blog - This is a regularly updated blog that combines the author's experience with submitted stories and related advice.
- Metal Detecting Florida's 1715 East Coast Treasure Wrecks by Lee Wiese - This PDF is a great resource for planning your detection trip and contains ship manifests, beach listings, maps, access points and more.
These two resources, coupled with instructional videos on how to calibrate your detector for wet sand and the surf, are all you need.
My Equipment
Garrett ACE 250 metal detector as pictured here.
Not the worst but definitely not the best.
My Experience in Pictures
The following is my attempt at the Treasure Coast.
One of the first discoveries made. You go out there thinking you're going to get Captain Hook's bounty but instead find a double-hook manatee deathtrap. Kinda looks like jewelery. Valentines is coming up ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Setting the discrimination to eliminate foil and similar will save you from having to dig to China for a bit of scrap metal. When detecting its important to fill any holes made as these beaches are used as a spawning ground by sea turtles.
Detecting in the surf isn't as easy as it seems. That surf, hard to believe it, but it's water. Moving water no less.
The high tide did a number on the beach. That line of seashells is the splash zone. Some detection enthusiasts advise to not bother with the splash zone and instead go for the surf, but that really depends on the quality of your equipment.
Some assbag left an unopened condom wrapper a foot under the sand. Guess what? That shit has metal in it. Fuck you buddy.
The illustrious bounty of a week's worth of detecting. At least I got a rusty Rapala out of it.
Bounty
- 3 x 1 cent coins
- 1 x Rapala lure
- 2 x hooks
- 2 x condoms in wrapping
- 4-5 scrap pieces of metal
- half dozen bottle caps
- 2 x live crabs
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I'm glad you guys got to go on such a nice vacation. I think the winner out of your "treasure" haul is that Rapala!
Enjoy the vote and reward!
Thanks man. Definitely looking forward to using it this summer up north.
That's the life of a detector IST! Nice Rapala though! I usually find toy tractors and lead weights ( they ring like gold ony detector).
I was surprised not to have found any weights but then figured no one uses them, they just get deep diving lures instead.
awesome share man, makes me think of the times @phelimint and I have gone metal detecting in our hometowns and in northern Ontario. Best find so far was a copper ring which I found with the Miss's.
That's a pretty good find. My best Ontario find is a tent peg.
we do like our camping lol
I use a Garret over on the west coast and find much of the same. Bottle caps, foil and some change. Will have to post some pics. Tried to vote but having trouble with it working.
Voting and the site in general have been pretty dicked since yesterday. Definitely make that post, always great to see metal detection posts up.
Lol I hate finding the condoms myself. I find these ones that I call condom coins. They were popular in the 90's . Stupid things look just like a gold coin. What an evil deception... I use an ace 350 myself. It really hates the wet sand here in California. Gets all chattery with false singals. I actually found a gold ring today at the park. I've always wanted to detect in Florida. You are in a great spot! Good luck to you on your next hunt.