Let’s hear all about your experiences?
Well, sir, Larry, I have to share one experience out of multiplied hundreds...
One evening, on a gold circuit vacation about oh, 7 years back now I guess, I was on one of the
backroads in SW Oregon, following a rabbit trail, in my Minnie Winnie. After much bouncing and
jostles, I ended up on a rather large gravel bar on the Rogue River, right next to where the sightseeing power boats haul tourists up and down the Rogue. I was basically parked on a
corner where they slowed but NOT BY MUCH, and roared around the corner with their passengers,
heading further up river.
I dispaired of finding any gold in that situation, since there wasn't much but round gray river rock and that gol-durned noisy boat of sight seeing folk. Just beyond me, down river, was a quiet fisherman type, pulling in one bass after another, FROM THE SAME GRAVEL BAR I was parked on.
So, anyhow, I decided to do some sample panning, and to my amazement, just right at where the
boats roared around the bend and headed up river, I found all kinds of placer gold, in the silt churned up to the side of the gravel bar.
What I considered a noisy pest, turned out to be a weary traveling prospector's friend. That ole boat and its umpty runs up that section of the river with the tourists, was a churning up the bottom of that bend, and sending placer in waves to the very edge of the gravel bar I was parked on.
I stayed an extra day, I was having so much fun.
So, y'all...please learn from my mistake about assuming there was no gold there to be found, and CHECK ANYHOW. You just never know who (
OR WHAT ![Whistle [&whistle#]](http://gpex.ca/smf/Smileys/default/65.gif)
) has been a thrashin' about in your creek or pond or river or stream, and sending the fun gold to the edges where you are a'standin'.