What I look for to get the most gold when working a gravel bar 

Gary in every episode: "I don't know how well this is showing it..." Shows it perfectly every time.

Gary you could make a video on watching corn grow and I would still watch it! 😂😂😂 Keep the videos coming but most of all take care of your health first! Much Love Brother!

I love to pan gold. I could spend all day on that gravel bar and pan flakes, and I wouldn't mind a bit. Great video. Take care of yourself.

Damn nice intro ya old goat! You know goat stands for greatest of all time. You are the greatest of all time prospector RU-vidr, for real. Thanks for sticking with your channel all these years and sharing the good times!

I was thinking how your videos are growing on me two toes. Ya start out slow "low excitment" but you explain each video well then follow through every time. You got a style that grows you.

Gary, Roy again, Sharon's husband and long time prospector. Been following your teachings and learned a lot, thank you. Looking for your most recent program. Mar 2, 2020 learned some more.

That was some amazing wildlife to see in one day! I never prospect that low in the valley so I don’t really see those birds too much. It’s some great weather it looks like and I hope we get some spring rains soon! Thanks for another fun video Gary

With all the knowledge you've been showing me over the past few years, I feel like I'm a pro, all I have to do now is get out and actually do it. Thanks again for the great video

Its a certainty I’ll be using some of your advice this season!!!! Thanks Gary !!!✅✅✅

Two Toes you have the best gold prospecting videos on the internet. You film good, You do not have wind noise overpowering the audio. We do not have to watch you dig and shovel a lot. We do not have to watch basic panning . You show what you get very clearly. And your explanations as to why you are digging where you are at are excellent. Although I have been messing around with prospecting for decades I have learned more about sniping, and reading river ground and metal detecting in the last couple of days than I ever had. Thanks John R.

Glad to hear you are feeling better Gary, It sure was surprising to see the size of the flakes you pulled form that area! Must be nice living so close to the gold, I think I might have a spot near me that is similar, I'll have to check it out some time soon, thanks for the inspiration!

Those pieces are really nice in that first pan, geez, I was not expecting that! Shows just how that knowledge can't be beaten, this is what we all thank you for Gary, very much, sharing that info well certainly help putting some of us on a bit of colour👍🙏⛏

Thank you for the tips Gary. Have a good day ✊️

Looks like Jeff had to walk home! Hahaha 😆😂 California really is a beautiful state, i still remember my first prospecting trip i ever took. I didn't know what I was doing, a green rookie, but i went to a gpaa claim on the N feather river and found my first few pieces of small gold and was hooked on gold mining for life!!! Thanks for sharing your video Gary!!! ✌

Gary, that was a nice place to get rid of the gold panning blues. Thanks for the lesson !!!!

6k views in 14 hours! Gary your a super duper star👍. And a damn good gold prospector. Watching you makes to much sense you explain everything to the tee ! 👍🇺🇸⚒😊🍀

Hi Gary. Greetings from Magalia. Your videos are great. That spot on the Feather River looks familiar. I recognize the rock you moved :-) We used to go down to the gravel bar behind the rock plant off 70. Every shovel has color. Dumping snow today so no prospecting.

Thank you for posting Gary. You always make us smile. It's so great to see prospecting in a different country. Their is nothing even close to this in my part of Australia. So I love your videos Regards Ashley

An informational video ! With comical tidbits ( Jeff with his umbrella on the side of the road ) ... Nice touch gentlemen just adds to the enjoyment! 👍😎✌️

Love ur videos on how to read the river for gold I live just south of the wildlife park so this was a treat to see it’s an easy place to take my son Gold!!!

What a beautiful place! Loved seeing Jeff out there looking for a ride 😂 We hope for heavy pans for you this year. Much love from over here in Lake county.

There's a gravel bar near me, I think I'll give it a shot this weekend. Thanks for the video and the lesson

Great wildlife and drone footage, Gary. Informative in terms of how to check out a gravel bar. Thank you for sharing!!!

Mr. Two Toes...I'll be you could squeeze gold from a lump of coal...Love the energy you put into reaching prospective sites.

Your instructional stuff is so good. Thx. Looking forward to your whole instructional series!

I woulda just been happy sitting here with my cold beer and listening to your cool music and looking at your bird pics, but then you had to go and hit me with the gold rush fever as well LOL. Touché, touché good sir. Thumbs up to you.

Gary the beginning of the video and inserted wildlife shots made this a great video to watch! I really liked the discussion about gravel size indicating water flow. Kinda knew that, but the gravel on that bar showed it really well. Great video, thanks.

Two toes I gotta say I learn more from your videos then most thanks for the great very clear explanation of that gravel bar that made so much sense and I love that you take the time to show your samples you know that's information that really helps the new guys out Cheers!😁🍻👍

Fun adventure! Nice looking pan!

Gary = SOLID CONTENT ... Thank you for sharing!

Very nice. I like the gold findings but I like the wildlife and scenery b roll also. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the gravel bar info, I have a few spots like that that I'm going to check out and test. It is all going to be glacial deposits. Wish me luck.

Nice trip!! Loved seeing the wildlife!! Not to awful bad for gold either

Production wise, one of your best videos yet. Great job. I’d really like to see you do one on working gravel with a sluice in the high country. I see TC and the other guys sluicing on their videos all the time but they aren’t very instructive like your videos are. Just a thought.

Loved the music. And drone footage. Feel better! All better! 💕

My cooking does that sometimes too. I’d pickup a cork if it would get me out there finding gold. Another great video Gary.

In SanDiego backcountry, we find gold, almost the size of the Black Sands in your pan..haha id be stoked with your 3 pans worth.. lol great INFO on river bar.. you always explain stuff well!

You really do have the golden touch Gary, oh look two decent flakes on the first pan on a unassuming gravel bar who would have thought

Funny, I always envisioned you living in Citrus Heights and was hoping to run into you one day. Still hoping to, but the odds are slimmer. Thank you for all of the knowledge you share with us, Gary!

Been struggling finding the gravel bar flood gold in my area. Going to use some of the advice here going forward and see if I can't improve my success rate on the big gravel bars with small flood gold.

What a great intro,audio and visual , thanks.

Great to have you back.. hopefully you'll feel great soon

Man it's nice to live in gold country.....I drive 50 to 80 miles to find any gold ...... There are areas I have found gold near Scottsdale AZ where I reside ..... But too many houses and long long walks to find targets...... That's a nice area you visited....I saw Oroville on the sign .... Thanks again for the video Gary and yes I learned something......

God bless ya, buddy. I look forward to all ur.teachings.. im a gold dredger outta nc..where gold is micro.at best

This video answers a lot of questions for me where i live!

Love how you flew home on your drone! If you could set up a high banker on that gravel bed, you’d probably do quite ok.

Oh wow! I live very close to that area. If I see you out on the river, I'll have to bring you up to the spot me and my friend found. 7 days, 8.16 grams so far for the year. Heavy pans!

I love that area been goin out there sense I can remember. Sure has changed a lot over the short years I’ve been around.

Thanks for sharing your video today. Have enjoyed your videos and look forward to seeing them. Stay safe with the coronavirus out there in your state and on the west coast area. Take care and happy gold hunting in 2020.

Get Well Soon Gary we need more gold videos :}

Hey Gary i was wondering if you could make a video somewhere in trinity county. I would love to see you find some good gold here!

It looks like my area. Basically all flour gold in the snake river with lots of areas like that. Thanks for helping me out

Thanks two toes I ask ya to show me some birds and you gave me heaps of them. Cheers.

Thank you. I'm sorry you haven't been feeling well.

gold prospecting is the best day out ever, i love it even if i don't find any.

Good video Gary! I don't know how you do it without knee pads. My question is as unfortunate it was when the damn broke years back, did it have enough power to kick up some of the bottom of that river downstream? Were miners flocked to it? Aloha, Paul

I didn't realize you lived near Oroville. I go to my uncles up in Berry Creek

Feather? I floated for salmon right there way back. Almanor is my old upwater as a kid. That's Table Mtn in back.

Perhaps we'll have a wet spring. Which we'll stop us all from dying, LOL!. Must be getting near time to head to your fish locker for lingcod. I'm still trying to catch one from shore. Heading to remote China harbor this weekend in Cen Cal to try again. May bring my metal detector as it was a smugglers cove.. Another fun vid thanks..

Good video Gary....hope you have a fantastic gold season.

Hello Gary, We just bought a 10 acre lot by the Rye Patch Reservoir in Nevada and we're looking forward to doing some gold prospecting around the area. We will be retired and building our home but we plan on making the time to search the area and have some fun. Maybe we'll run into you out there somewhere and when we get the place done you're welcome to stop by anytime. Love your videos.

Ahoy YAH, thanks for Gary's lessons based on personal experience so i'm learning while here in New Jersey while i'm nearing my Day One when i will be free for leaving here for having good fun while finding Au in USA's safe areas of wilderness in California.

Mr. Toes, I just want to thank you for all your efforts in these Videos. I have learned so much from you already and will continue to go to the channell for tips n tricks. If you ever have room for a crusty ole straggler in your rig I would absolutely love the opportunity to join you on an adventure!!!! I might even pay for the fuel lol Again thank you so much for all you do for us out here!!!! Yours Truely Sam C

I really enjoyed the video Gary. Wildlife was awesome. Finding the gold was pretty cool 😎 also.

Hay 2 toes.. my sister lives in Oroville. Maybe you can meet up. She hunts all that area your in and might be able to direct you to a few prospecting hot spots. Thank you for sharing, Daniel.

Is that the sort of situation where you would want to check to see if you have a higher point sticking up on the bar -- where you might get a higher concentration of real fine stuff? "Skim" placer, I think they call it?

Love your vibe dude, quick question, would all your information still apply to new zealand?

Gary, you dun broke your own rule. Thank you for telling me where you went panning.Long way to come for me but Oroville has the Feather River. Nice area, love the river. L.A. over and out.

Come upon your video on my home page of youtube. Great video! Your video peaked my interest. Don't suppose you ever worked for Gold in Nebraska? When I was 10 yrs old my Father was Stationed at Elmendorf Airforce Base just outside Anchorage Alaska in 1978. Can you believe we were in Gold Central and never done any Panning for gold. Many times all over Alaska the first thing I would do is stick my hand in the, "Mud Flat", hold it up to my face and just see it Glitter. the specks were so small I could not find a way for me to isolate the fine flake then about 20 years later I watched a program on the Education Channel that told the story of a teacher that would set up shop right on the Mud flats over summer break back in Alaska. She was dredging with a hose into a angle box that had 4 diff screens then one or two felt strips at the end. The only other thing she would was ride her 3 wheeler down the flats looking for large logs next to streams that would empty into the ocean. What she described looking for never made sense to me: she was looking for a grey color Sandy/mud material and fill her buckets with this material. Went back and at the end of the day after packing up and returning to Camp would pan that material. turned out she would get many times more gold from the grey material than she got from dredging all day with her other set up. She would make enough to buy a car & after a few seasons she paid off the last half of her Home loan.

Nothing wrong with that gold for just a few pans , i'd take that any day just 7 mins from home . And what do you know who would be out there hitch hiking . But you should never pick up hitch hikers , hey Gary ha ha ha , No matter how good looking they are , lol . Excellent vid , i liked the new concept intro , and the wildlife especially beautiful , thanks Gary , cheers mate .

I showed a gravel bar in one of my videos that was under water last year and now I want to do a few test pans👍🏻 ATB Gary! HH🎧⛏

Gary: Love your videos, thank you for all the time and effort you put into them. You are inspiring me to try prospecting. I enjoy your wildlife images/videos as well. Be well!

Hi, love you're vids and yes I am a subscriber and today I'm kind of looking for some pointers; so to speak. I just moved from Los Angeles to the San Luis Obispo area and wouldn't you know it this area is known for having the least gold in the state practically so my question is if you lived here and didn't want to drive more than an hour or two to prospect where would you go. Thank you for you're consideration

Gary, do you have any thoughts on where a dredge might have lost gold? I wonder about tailings piles if coarse rocks might be kicked out early with clumps and if the bottom maybe 6-8 inches of riverbed near bedrock is almost un-recoverable by a large dredge...and maybe uneven depths and shoreline hard to maneuver area also caused recovery problems.

Great educational video. I live on American river and want to apply this !

Great video thanks Gary!

Hi, thanks for this clarification. I have a question please, is this expectation It applies to all rivers anywhere or specific to the circumstances of the place you are in. Thank you

Thanks for the video.. So if the gold you found was maybe 18 carrot what would the estimated value be?

I had no idea you could pan in the wild life area! More info pls!! Love your videos 🤩

Keep up the great work. Watch out for those hitchhiker's. That one you drove by looked up to no good

Do dams stop flood gold from reaching spots lower on the river?

Thanks for another great lesson for us still learning

Stay safe Gary. You are probably safest out there mining with this corona virus.

Thank you Gary for the entertaining and educational video , and it's a good thing you didn't pick up that stranger walking down the road. ( Hey Jeff , if you had pulled up your pant leg and showed a little skin Gary might have stopped for you .)

I gotta question about that Oroville dam that they released that huge amount of water into the Feather a year or so ago, seeing the video & how high it flooded, wouldn't that torrent of water work out deposits that lay asleep for decades? Or has everyone recovered it already?

now that place can run some fast water..its flat no obstructions..the sandbars move all the time ..you got a few pickers today they are nice..

I live in Oroville i seen a truck just like yours ive found some good stuff out there well do we need anything legally lice what ever well i drive a o3 trail blazer blue with a black box on my roof its not easy doing the stuff i do on fix income glad to see someone out there

Thought it was Jeff with the umbrella at the start.maybe you should of asked him to go with you and he wouldn't of had to walk there and back.😂😂😂👍💛

So does the water come up fast and furious when there is high water?

you sir are a gold magnet

Awesome wildlife in your area. You showed a Bald eagle!

i hadn't seen any mention of it, but did the spillway blowout have any effect on that area?...would a metal detector be any use there?...considering the number of dams on rivers in the gold country, if this is a drought year, and water levels are going to be low, would areas around the lake/river confluence be a good choice to prospect?...anyway, just curious...thanks...

always a fine day on the gold with you great vid buddy

Thanks for not always hiding your location! Is highbanking allowed out there?

Hey Gary, what's the music on this video?

Currently…my favorite gold hunter!

Got to love test panning cheers Glenno.

Oh man,if I could get 0.08g for a few pans after work every day, I’d absolutely stop on my way home! It would be the best part of the day!

5 to 7 minutes = Heck of a drive to get home. Hillarious!

Great video! Very informative. Not a bad take either for only a few pans. You weren't there very long were you?