decline in beach finds ?

[brickie58]

Anybody else found this, I know weather is a big factor but I think a lot of it is down to more people using debit cards ie less cash in there pockets to lose on the beach.

[TerraFirma]

looks like the local lads clean up  in the evening when the grockles go home

Ive had 2 x trips to Barry recently only to find pulltabs and squashed cans

 

[brickie58]

I am one of the local lads! Go down every night after a good day weather wise but finds are poor this past few years compared to the amount of people on the beach ?.

[probono]

I don't beach detect very often - the best I have ever managed is 20p and that was at Ogmore, not Barry, where the best I've found was a bit of pipe - and yet there were other people on the beach that day and whilst they didn't have much. it was still much better than what I found!

[brickie58]

I detect on a small beach which I can see from home it's about half a mile long yesterday hot day there must have been a thousand people on it I went down at dusk and found no coins just the usual rubbish! And no nobody had detected it before me as I would have seen them that was the worst night I've ever had but like I said earlier in a post this is how it's been going the last few years,  I know what im doing I am not a newbie and have a quality detector I have spoken to others and its the same on other beaches, strange.

[Slim Pickings]

Yes definitely right there I have been beach detecting down ere in the Southwest for 32 years and the finds over quite a few years now have got less and less
more people detecting the beaches in the summer months , but also the winters down this way have got milder and milder and we don't get the Easterly winds like we
used to when I first started out,so the good stuff just keeps on going downwards out of range .

[dances with badgers]

I agree guys .lot less cash comin up since i started four years ago.the weather is obviously a factor.we need summers like we used to have .

[jonty]

I used to average one gold ring every three or four visits to the beaches at Porthcawl. Since the heavy storms early in 2014 I have found very little, just a couple of quid now and again. Things were so bad soon after the storms I was hard pushed to find a ring pull. I am convinced the storms destroyed the top layers of sand and things will only get better when the holiday makers have re-seeded the beaches.