Panning And Sluicing For Gold In A Small Stream

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  • @aquachigger
    @aquachigger  4 роки тому +57

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    • @Clint_L33twood
      @Clint_L33twood 4 роки тому +2

      Do you have a claim or just going around to random spots on streams on public land? Also, your technique looks fine to me!

    • @crucialfarmsurbanandfresh
      @crucialfarmsurbanandfresh 4 роки тому

      Lets plan my creek

    • @troyspeaks9461
      @troyspeaks9461 4 роки тому +1

      I very much enjoy watching your videos!

    • @anitablades6033
      @anitablades6033 4 роки тому +1

      Love the ending I needed that !!!!

    • @rosel.1874
      @rosel.1874 4 роки тому

      Yay i love your videos! My mom and i watch every video you make!

  • @presschapin7434
    @presschapin7434 4 роки тому +5

    I enjoy your demeanor. You're hopeful, encouraging, and not an angry man. I like going along on your trips. Thank you for putting the extra effort into making your videos.

  • @tracythorn2918
    @tracythorn2918 4 роки тому +25

    Whenever I see a new video from you I smile and set time aside to watch. You have a positive attitude and a good sense of humor. That's a great combination.

    • @looneytunea3064
      @looneytunea3064 3 роки тому

      he reminds me of dakota fred hurt from Gold Rush: White Water as they both are good human beings.

  • @lauragoyette8172
    @lauragoyette8172 4 роки тому +13

    I love how you explain what you are doing and why. I’ve learn so much from watching your videos. Thanks for being such a great teacher !

  • @glassontherocks
    @glassontherocks 4 роки тому +3

    "Couch panners" don't get any gold. They just watch us get it on their devices. Anyone who has ever found gold doesn't want to lose it. You always get better with what works for you the best. I liked your video because of the honesty. A lot of You Tubers seed their pans for show. I dam up a small creek to alter the flow so I can clean off the bedrock and then open it back up when I'm done. We need metal detectors that find tiny deposits of flood gold.

  • @susansmith6680
    @susansmith6680 4 роки тому +19

    Chigg's in the water, river hunting can't be too far away.

  • @lesahanners5057
    @lesahanners5057 4 роки тому +4

    You can sluice the juice anyway you want Chigg. I've never done it in my life and probably never will, but I still enjoy seeing you do it and your friends do it. Life is good when you can share it with friends. Have a great day getting wet in the mud. ...ha ha ha...

  • @peppermintjamie
    @peppermintjamie 4 роки тому +1

    I've never been metal detecting, or magnet fishing, or relic hunting, or panning for gold or caving(unless going into "commercial" caves with paved paths count),... the point I'm trying to make is that I enjoy watching your videos, because they allow me to "experience" new things. Thank You for that.

  • @helenburke9507
    @helenburke9507 4 роки тому

    Love your videos. Because I watch all the time I bought a bounty hunter detecter. Thank you for being such a good person n I hope you don’t quit making these. I also have shared them with my client when I was a care giver in their home. She loved them too. 87 yr old treasure detecter. Stay safe.

  • @socal33
    @socal33 Рік тому

    This was EXACTLY what I was looking for when I entered my search. We have a small creek behind us with lots of quartz and that black metallic stuff. I'm getting ready to do some panning and you have helped me with this intro. Thank you.

  • @icepick832
    @icepick832 4 роки тому +19

    Your panning is just fine. As you said everyone does it differently. I’d recommend feeding your sluice a little slower though. Gotta give the gold a little more time to settle. Overload it and it can just flow right over the riffles.

  • @memes.5593
    @memes.5593 3 роки тому

    This is what I like to see, a man who's willing to get down and dirty to find the valuables of this world. More people should grow a pair like this guys.

  • @frankforrest1597
    @frankforrest1597 4 роки тому +2

    The Chiggs got da fever! Nice little instruction on panning, thanks. Lots of luck, hope y'all hit the mother load. Stay safe and healthy everyone 👍😷🖖

  • @rockfishresellerllc.5843
    @rockfishresellerllc.5843 Рік тому +1

    Panning for gold during "The Gold Rush" days, I'm sure that they had many techniques that they used. If you get gold, you get gold. I'm with ya, buddy!🤠😎👍

  • @badapple65
    @badapple65 4 роки тому +1

    I am so happy the Chig is still posting. I am like MANY where it was the chig’s early videos that got me into detecting. Garrett owes the Chig thousands to be fair with the amount of guys like me he gravitated towards the hobby. A good and decent man too. I freaked during his “Time to say goodbye” video two months ago. Any Ass bites that leave crap comments do not take into consideration the hours and hours of free entertainment and education he has provided. They should simply be blocked immediately. This should be a great experience for the creator as well. God bless Beau and here’s to many more years.

  • @TrueEmperio
    @TrueEmperio 4 роки тому +47

    Day 10 of the quarantine and so far I've learned how to:
    Change the hooves of a horse
    properly armwrestle
    blacksmith
    search for Items in a river
    search for gold in a stream

    • @onhawaii
      @onhawaii 4 роки тому +4

      I wonder if the horses like to get their hooves changed. Sound really painful to me.

    • @pawpatrolnews
      @pawpatrolnews 4 роки тому

      You really need to do something with your life...

    • @shroomcookergaming4843
      @shroomcookergaming4843 3 роки тому

      I wonder what you learned by now 😂

    • @weekendwarriorprospecting817
      @weekendwarriorprospecting817 3 роки тому

      I bet you're itching to get out and use your new skills. I get down to the rivers and have a little pan.

    • @GlockJunkies
      @GlockJunkies 7 місяців тому +2

      So 4 years later, have you used anything of these things? 😂

  • @historyhunter3332
    @historyhunter3332 4 роки тому +1

    I've been enjoying your video's for about a year and a half now. All of them are very interesting ,fun and a great variety! The way you do your videos makes you feel like an old friend .

  • @marthariddlegarcia2991
    @marthariddlegarcia2991 4 роки тому

    Chigg, you are right about everyone having their own technique. My dad taught me when I was younger. His technique was to use a combination of the swirl and spill to a forward and backwards motion. He always said the black sand is what you want to end up with and that’s where you going to see the gold. We always had a lot of fun.

  • @jessriseley1532
    @jessriseley1532 4 роки тому +2

    I love his videos, my favourite have to be when he goes on the American Indian hunt for Artefacts, and also the gold panning, then the under water hunts. Best videos ever

  • @chrisdriver8453
    @chrisdriver8453 4 роки тому

    Fun stuff. When I was younger we used to swim in the James River all the time and I can remember pulling up hands full of sand all the time with gold flakes in it. We never paid much attention to it then. Now I would spend my time getting the gold instead of just swimming around. Awesome 🇺🇸

  • @MrFriiy
    @MrFriiy 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks Chigg! Watching your videos is like going out with friends... Always learning and never a bad time!

  • @ddniUK
    @ddniUK 4 роки тому +2

    Chigger upload times, the cause of my UK insomnia. Love it! Thanks Beau.

    • @johnramirez5032
      @johnramirez5032 4 роки тому

      Thanks for the adventure. I thinks that's what important

    • @TS-bn7zt
      @TS-bn7zt 4 роки тому

      ddniUK Same here 👍lol

  • @JustMeBubba
    @JustMeBubba 4 роки тому +7

    I've got a small stream running through my property. I order a sluice box and it should be in this Wednesday!
    My sin and I have been classifying some dirt from the stream getting ready for the sluice! I don't expect to find anything, but it's something my son and I can do at home! Plus you never know if there is gold or not if you don't check!!
    Love the videos Chigg!! Keep them coming :D

    • @glassontherocks
      @glassontherocks 4 роки тому +1

      Gold is always where you find it. You never know till you go. Good luck.

    • @VickieV1333
      @VickieV1333 4 роки тому +1

      Good luck!

    • @anonymouse7074
      @anonymouse7074 4 роки тому +1

      I got a smaller than small stream running through my property. Don't know if it's worth learning all this

    • @rickfreeman9530
      @rickfreeman9530 5 місяців тому

      Good luck my friend! Peace and prosperity to you and your family! Montana Rick.

  • @larrywilliams153
    @larrywilliams153 3 роки тому

    Lmao , last time I went panning it took over a week to recover … the old back just can’t handle it anymore.
    But I’m delighted you found some …
    Keep em coming brother…..

  • @reginamathews2001
    @reginamathews2001 4 роки тому

    I don't know the 1st thing about panning for gold but your video is informative and entertaining. I look forward to the next one.

  • @ObelixMagnetFishing
    @ObelixMagnetFishing 4 роки тому

    In 1989 I was in New Zealand with my father in a place where gold would be found, but we had never done gold prospecting and because we had previously heard how a farmer found greenstone in an accident with his car hitting a rock , which gave us the idea of splitting a rock to see if there was gold in it, which turned out not to be an easy job afterwards, so we eventually blew it off. I read via Google that gold is found in the Rhine that the ride there is more expensive to get there, so I stick to magnet fishing. One thing I know now that I am no longer a stupid Dutchman and thanks to your videos how or how to look for gold. I dare to doubt whether it will ever happen again. I am 60 and folding myself with my more than two meters in length I already hear my joints creak. ;-)

  • @ihaveguts
    @ihaveguts 4 роки тому +1

    Another day another Chigg adventure! Thanks for the entertainment Beau, stay healthy and safe out there!

  • @ShellyAnn1a
    @ShellyAnn1a 4 роки тому

    As for your panning technique, well it is just fine, mine looks sloppy compared to a lot of others. I have never used a sluice myself, Dad made a rocker sluice when I was a kid back in the late 1950's. We found small amounts of gold. Dad always said it was for getting out into the fresh air and just having fun. Then in the spring of 1959 I almost lost my Dad when he interrupted a bank robbery and pursued the would be robber, who later shot him during the attempt to arrest him. We never went out gold panning or using the rocker again after that. There is a lot of gold mining areas where I now live and I take my pan and classifiers with me when I travel in those areas I stop in places along the way and dig up a bucket full then stop on a creek and take time to pan it out, I might find a little color and I keep what I can recover from the black sand.
    I love your videos, you do some things that I cannot do or you go places that I can only dream of going to. Have a great day, thank you for sharing your adventures and discoveries. But, most of all, stay safe and healthy, keep your family safe and healthy as well..
    //es//A 70y/o Active Outdoors Lady and Veteran, 1967-1994

  • @alabamadixiediggers4714
    @alabamadixiediggers4714 4 роки тому

    ANOTHER AWESOME AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE.... Thanx Chigg.... see ya on the next

  • @OldButStillKicking
    @OldButStillKicking Рік тому

    Always appreciate all that you share as you educate me and I'm sure, many others.

  • @victorharness8293
    @victorharness8293 4 роки тому

    If that's a Keene Engineering sluice and a Garret Gravity Trap Pan, you are using exactly what I did about 37 years ago when I last went looking for 'colors' in gold pans. Love the video!

  • @claudiadarling9441
    @claudiadarling9441 4 роки тому +7

    Been enjoying your adventures new and old while I'm stuck at home isolating and what not. Hope you and yours are doing well.

  • @chapel4296
    @chapel4296 4 роки тому

    Very nice video! My wife wants to pan for gold, I'll show her this video and all the hard work that goes into it.

  • @MrFire710
    @MrFire710 2 роки тому

    we love all your videos most of these topics are stuff we do with our children but its great to see your techniques thank you for sharing

  • @MkE89
    @MkE89 4 роки тому +6

    always enjoy your videos, very calming

  • @Doobydoobydoowah
    @Doobydoobydoowah Рік тому

    Great video! Very helpful! My friends and I are just panning for fun, but it’s such a pleasant way to spend time outside! It reminds me of what I enjoyed about fishing as a kid.

  • @NUGGETSHOOTER
    @NUGGETSHOOTER 4 роки тому

    Always enjoy Chigg, Tammy and I are going panning this weekend near Prescott

  • @henriettatudor566
    @henriettatudor566 4 роки тому +1

    “Sometimes Listen To The Chigg
    But Ultimately Use Your Own Judgment.”
    That could be the new catch phrase :)

  • @medisin90
    @medisin90 5 місяців тому

    Just starting in some streams in NE Pennsylvania...this video was a great guide from where to look in a stream to the basics on how to pan. Thanks!!!

  • @TheJenjo3
    @TheJenjo3 2 роки тому

    I like the way you pan! My dad was a gold miner. I grew up on the creek. I wish I was on that creek now. I have been stuck in Phoenix for too long now....ugh....somebody save me, please!?

  • @originaljazzgirl
    @originaljazzgirl Рік тому

    Really liked this video. You do a great job of presenting what you're doing and your thought processes. Thanks!

  • @keithadkins5138
    @keithadkins5138 4 роки тому

    I want to try some panning one day! Keep making videos, I watch them every day, my grandson likes watching them also, we’re detecting every chance we get , learning bunches from watching. Thanks

  • @FreeSpiritBudgieLady
    @FreeSpiritBudgieLady 4 роки тому

    Sitting at home locked down and yearning for the great outdoors and a swinging metal detector.....It’s unlikely to happen for months here. Thank you for keeping me relatively sane Mr Chig!

  • @trimbaker1893
    @trimbaker1893 3 роки тому

    I feel smart when I see you doing it the way I do. Right on.

  • @eragonwjfn
    @eragonwjfn 4 роки тому

    Thank you for your nice videos. I watch every now and then and I always end up in a good mood. :)

  • @advenzures
    @advenzures 4 роки тому +8

    Another great episode. Thank you for sharing with us. Stay safe everyone 🤗 Happy Hunting.

  • @iantuck6364
    @iantuck6364 4 роки тому

    I always hit the "like" button on every one of your videos I watch. Thanks for making them.

  • @-meganeura
    @-meganeura 4 роки тому

    I just love sluicing , so peaceful and therapeutic. If you ever in Portugal come sluice with me, I grantee you will find pretty nice gold.

  • @CatalinaThePirate
    @CatalinaThePirate 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you for posting this. Your vids are always so absorbing!
    I hope we all can stay safe and stay healthy! GL&HH! 😊 Thanks again. 💕

  • @papayork1907
    @papayork1907 4 роки тому

    thanks, Chigg. your panning is fine, let them work themselves up over nothin`. i`ve been prospecting the Swift River region in Maine for the past few years. good gold there

  • @wendywalsh318
    @wendywalsh318 4 роки тому

    Hi idont normally subscribe to any site I just watch and learn, but I've been watching your show for over 12months, I love the little treasures that you find I've been metal detecting for the last 20yrs I've never found anything at all I've been panning I have the same as you but I love the little treasures from metal detecting, I live in a very old town for gold mining, I'd be happy if I could just find a old bottle

  • @DolphinSailor352
    @DolphinSailor352 4 роки тому

    Thanks Chig! Your videos are part of my nightly routine. Keep em comin please....

  • @chucckb463
    @chucckb463 4 роки тому

    I have watched all of your videos. I just wanted to say awesome job on all. Even this one.👍

  • @rockrebell100
    @rockrebell100 4 роки тому

    This is the best and naturale video i eget seen sins i starter whatching a 5 five years ago...🥰🥰😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 .. Keep up the god jobb yuo doing, and i keep watching...😍😍 love from sweden 🤩🤩🤩🤩😎

  • @trevornuttall9072
    @trevornuttall9072 4 роки тому +1

    Love your prospecting adventures brings back childhood memories with my dad!

  • @garyanddoris6022
    @garyanddoris6022 4 роки тому

    Not bad pan of gold at all , truly enjoy your adventure of in the creek.....

  • @jaydencebrannon447
    @jaydencebrannon447 4 роки тому

    @Aguachigger I have been watching your videos for quite some time now and I have been enjoying all of them I love the metal detecting and magnet fishing I have gotten a metal detector and magnet you have inspired me to metal detect but thanks for all the fun videos

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 4 роки тому

    Gold fever Chigg has the gold fever great video be safe and GOD BLESS

  • @JuanfFigueroa
    @JuanfFigueroa 11 місяців тому

    Thanks chig, for all us new bees
    that are stating in gold propecting

  • @MovieSceneDeepDive
    @MovieSceneDeepDive 4 роки тому

    I’m an amateur metal detector and magnet fisherman but I would love to learn how to pan for gold! You’re an inspiration for us all.

  • @carolalexander1429
    @carolalexander1429 4 роки тому

    Exciting and fun. Full of adventure and riches. 😊

  • @thatscoobaru8524
    @thatscoobaru8524 3 роки тому

    I like your way of panning! And I like your content! And you always just put it into prospective for the noobs that want to do the same things that you do!

  • @andylarner3531
    @andylarner3531 4 роки тому

    thanks for another adventure chig keeping me sane in lockdown Britain

  • @alicewilliams1597
    @alicewilliams1597 3 роки тому

    Good work,you have the right touch in panning gold.

  • @davidraines2873
    @davidraines2873 4 роки тому +14

    Flour Gold Wizards told me just being out there is what it’s about. The gold is extra

    • @SlayermikeFishingandMORE
      @SlayermikeFishingandMORE 4 роки тому +1

      Jason is a wise man!

    • @-meganeura
      @-meganeura 4 роки тому

      @@charlesstein2880 It all ads up very quickly and it is smart to collect it all for the time your stuck at home to process.

    • @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside
      @Seeds-Of-The-Wayside 4 роки тому

      @@charlesstein2880 I mean, if it's really truly that plentiful by you, you could really make a good profit collecting it dude

  • @dogmosatchmo
    @dogmosatchmo 4 роки тому +1

    River adventures aren't far! I wonder if Todd will go out in the rivers with you. Thank you for all that you do!

  • @budrohammbone2806
    @budrohammbone2806 4 роки тому

    Chigg, Fun Vid. Finding a little color makes it so.

  • @christopheronyx8049
    @christopheronyx8049 4 роки тому +1

    I love what you do. Please never stop! Stay healthy!

  • @MrRDFORD
    @MrRDFORD 4 роки тому

    Always enjoy your vlogs. Recently got my dad watching as well and he really likes the variety of places and types of searching, (metal detecting, scuba, panning, magnetic, caves, etc.) you do. Also finds your lightly fun hearted humor a laugh. Enjoy

  • @suggssecurity
    @suggssecurity 4 роки тому

    I have gold fever but I'm locked down with the pan in the van! Never been yet so good to see how it's done 👍

  • @everilleflood2836
    @everilleflood2836 4 роки тому

    sorry about my goof up I'm not great n the computer lol. I love all of your videos and your sense of humour, thanks.

  • @hammerstoneartifacts4986
    @hammerstoneartifacts4986 4 роки тому

    Nothing wrong with the Chigg! Keep it up brother!

  • @davidprice944
    @davidprice944 4 роки тому

    Great video as always Chigg! Your videos are awesome...you almost always have me laughing at something you do or say. Great technique also! Keep up the good work!

  • @VickieV1333
    @VickieV1333 4 роки тому +2

    I love hunting for gold with ya Chigg!
    And that’s why no one ever listens to the Chigg😉

  • @jamesbarisitz4794
    @jamesbarisitz4794 4 роки тому +1

    Great expedition. Nothing wrong with your prospecting techniques. 👍

  • @markopittman2833
    @markopittman2833 2 роки тому

    a larger reveal mat on the front is how i ride brother. thanks for the video.and as always heavy pans.

  • @battleparkwest2463
    @battleparkwest2463 4 роки тому +1

    Nice video chig, thanks for sharing buddy

  • @altonriggs2352
    @altonriggs2352 4 роки тому

    Chig...now you've done it...now I getting GOLD FEVER!!!

  • @Hotfiresneatwhiskey
    @Hotfiresneatwhiskey 4 роки тому

    Well chigg you got me into metal detecting and now you’ve got me interested in gold prospecting!

  • @playing_in_trafic
    @playing_in_trafic 4 роки тому

    Great video. Made me want to dig out my sluice and head for the hills.

  • @liambeckemeyer2499
    @liambeckemeyer2499 4 роки тому

    Style is second to success, Chigg. I think your method works perfectly.

  • @jeffjeffjeffg9471
    @jeffjeffjeffg9471 4 роки тому

    First video I've watched of yours. I like your explanations and your panning style. You have a new prescriber.

  • @mattparks5621
    @mattparks5621 4 роки тому

    Your technique looked good to me because it looked like you were having fun. Love the videos.

  • @stevenbetts5884
    @stevenbetts5884 3 роки тому

    I like your idea of letting the water flow in and out

  • @jeepermomg4195
    @jeepermomg4195 4 роки тому +1

    Your doing great. We love your videos. This seems so much fun!

  • @ChocolateTherapie
    @ChocolateTherapie 3 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing your method! The family and I are going to try to do some gold panning on the creek in the backyard this weekend during Christmas time.
    cheers Micah

  • @sloughton1961
    @sloughton1961 4 роки тому

    All your clips are very good but i especially like the panning ones , cheers.

  • @jdmcarandmotorcycle
    @jdmcarandmotorcycle 3 роки тому +1

    Hello from Washington Seattle gold rush

  • @ThinkTexas
    @ThinkTexas 4 роки тому

    Great adventure! Thanks as always.

  • @outdoorwanderer6748
    @outdoorwanderer6748 4 роки тому

    This was fun, thanks for taking us with ya Chigg.

  • @aropals672
    @aropals672 4 роки тому

    Thanks for the video. Enjoy the daily videos so much. Especially the longer ones!

  • @jell-oputin8036
    @jell-oputin8036 4 роки тому +1

    I thought that was pretty badass . Thanks Chigg 👍🏼

  • @leonardfernie7695
    @leonardfernie7695 4 роки тому +1

    hey chigg, we love your videos, keep them coming.

  • @eragonwjfn
    @eragonwjfn 4 роки тому

    I enjoy your videos a lot Chigg's. When in need of inspiration to get out I just watch your videos. :)

  • @erictannehill4538
    @erictannehill4538 4 роки тому

    Enjoyed it chigg. See ya on the next one

  • @johnmurray5297
    @johnmurray5297 4 роки тому

    Thanks Chigg, always enjoy! By the way, I always listen to the Chigg!

  • @lifesliberty2992
    @lifesliberty2992 4 роки тому

    Keep on makin em! Love the videos. Fun to just watch and take the ride with you

  • @StratoSwitch
    @StratoSwitch 3 роки тому

    I’ve been with you for a long time Beau I’m a metal detecting guy through and through but I really enjoyed this video.

  • @TheScottybob
    @TheScottybob 4 роки тому

    I was really hoping to do some gold panning in Canada this spring but can’t get across the border because it’s shut down. Glad to see you were able to get out. Thanks for sharing.

  • @dwaynemiller8258
    @dwaynemiller8258 2 роки тому

    Enjoy your video. Got a small creek on property my son has got,been wanting to try. Thanks for some ideas, info got from video. Keep panning!!