Flood Gold, Find More. Avoid This Massive Mistake Gold Panning Or Sluicing! 

We call this the first pan curse. First pan has good gold, then the rest is crap. Great tips! Gotta test in layers! Congrats!

Good video. Yippers, the gold follows the golden rule. It tends to settle with material of its own size and weight.

Dude!!! Yes! Beautiful little tip there. I am well aware of the first pan curse... yet I keep digging. What a good reminder, thank you brotha!

Excellent video, Chris. Great tip for panning or highbanking flood gold. Subscribed. Thank you for sharing.

Love the systematic testing of the layers! Thanks for taking the time to show us! 😉✌️

Happy anniversary.... Yeah, well flood gold adds up and there is a lot more of it than bigger chunky bits... Love the video and your advice 👍🤓✌️

Great tip for me! Subscribed

Nice jaunt Chris. Great to see ya again. Congrats on the 1st year, and your monetization. Take care, Cheers!

Man. Last year I had this happen. Me and my buddy were at the local creek where we find lots of flour gold. I was test panning around. Found 14 colors in the one pan.. dug 3 buckets. And absolutely nothing 😂.... I was shocked. However all around the 14 color pan I did really well hitting a few pockets. However I did find later on that there is a clay layer like a shelf of shorts. The 14 color pan was at the end of that shelf. The end of the shelf was right next to fast moving water. At the edge the flow was slow and low. Makes sense why it was there. And then not there lol

Congratulations and thanks for the tips!

Thanks for the tip - useful.

Great information thank you

Fantastic video!!! I have done exactly what you described. Dug right through the gold layer. I finally figured it out after my clean ups were alot less then I thought they would be. Have you ever done any desert mining in Arizona? I move down three years ago and am really struggling down here. I really miss my rivers.

Love good tips, thanks

Congrats on your 1 year

Congrats on your growths. And happy anniversary

congrates. I sure do enjoy watching you do what I can't at this time of my life,, due to my broken body... So I be praying that God will bless you as you seek the shinny... I'm looking forward for many more years to come... BBE..

Great to see you

Young man, your missing a piece or two of the puzzle. If there is workable gold in a gravel bar, you must find the pay streak (if there is one). That pay streak is usually no more than 18 inches wide and runs linerally down the bar. Any pan with 10 colors or less is back ground noise (just overburden). You can't make gold in overburden!! The pay streak will have 50 to 200 colors!!! You must sample across the bar until you hit the pay streak, then define it. How wide and long is it. There and only there is where you production pan!!! The rest of the bar is useless! You must use a pan, because a pan will catch 100% (unless you throw it out). A modern sluice will only catch 15% at most in flour gold and it doesn't matter which one or which mat!! So you would have to run 6 times more material through a sluice because they are so lossy on flour gold. Stick with your pan!! If you are allowed a metal detector, find you an old analog Tessoro Ed Dorado, Whites 5900 or 6000, Garrett Master Hunter 7, or original Gold bug. Anything newer is totally useless!! They are digital and of no use to a prospector. Those mentioned can be set to find black sand deposits and can peg heavier black sand deposits from the background black sand on the bar (once you learn how to use it). Finding the thicker black sand is almost always in the pay streak!!! And you can define the pay streak very quickly!!! Working random background noise nets you tenths of a gram per day (what most people do). Working the pay streak will net you grams per day!!!! Last one I did took two days but gave me 9.3 grams!! Good Luck!!

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Just subscribed a few hours ago. I can't wait to test out an area in California this coming April. Should the Bears and other Munchers leave me alone, it'll be my great "Staycation." 😄

Good info nice area.

This literally just happened to me. I found a gravel bar and did a test pan behind a semi big rock and found a lot of nice flakes, as I kept going down, the number reduced to 1 or 2 flakes but tended to be bigger, until I found nothing. So I think I found a pay streak that now I will be able to just work on the later that's carrying gold.

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Wise words. I'm new to the hobby and am up in Puyallup. I'd love to come learn with you.

I'm new to this and where I am there's not much gold...but i went for a few hours a few weeks ago and only dug one hole..i bagged up gravel from 4 different depths to pan at home...the only few pieces of gold i found was in the top layer

Very good to know. Me and my dad have just started prospecting. Only been out maybe 5 times and haven't got much at all. Did my best on the Umpqua by Mertle creek. Few "fly poops" and 1 little picker I got out of a ball of roots of the river grass that was growing on some bedrock

Flood gold teases a lot of beginners. I always test top and deeper.

Sometimes you just got to run all the layers to get to the bottom of which one has the best pay

lol, It took me quite awhile before i learned that surface gold does not mean dig deeper for better and bigger. Now i never did down in the bars unless i see heavies or i find sticky clay. It makes total sense to me now, but you think all kinds of crazy thoughts when your starting out. haha.

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just a question please what size square holes are in the strainer, 1/2 or 7/16? is that perfect for the kind of debris you are going through rock, sand etc? is it a 14" round one as well? thanks

Interesting how the layer concept works! Monetized means commercials. 🤑

Why do you start at your channel! Hope you have a great Crystal hunt!

Went down to that exact spot a couple months ago and a couple as naked as jaybirds were performing coitus. Just said excuse me and proceeded to cross the river.

dont know were you're at me california. ,anybody in there right mind would leave and find a better area i throw those specs away (waste of time). serious. your looking for many pieces each time. good luck. have a good day.

Young man. A pan will always catch more gold than a sluice!!! The pan will keep 100% unless you throw it out ;) A real good sluice will loose 80%, always. "Run more material, get more gold"...not if you use a sluice!!! In fact, you have to run 8 times as much threw a sluice to get the same amount!!! You see the original sluices the old timers used had a 2 foot long sheet copper slick plate coated in Mercury!!! Those caught it all down to 300 mesh. Without the slick plate and the mercury, modern sluices toss 80%, period! Stay with your pan, you'll get a lot more gold. Here is a hint, pan down just to black sand and stop!! That is far faster and allows you to get more concentrates. That gold ain't going anywhere so take that black sand concentrate home and do it there.

Real question: is there any logic to the color of the gold pan? Some are green, some are black, is there an appropriate time to use one or the other?

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All this does is piss me off

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