Gold Fever: The Return to the Stanislaus

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  • Опубліковано 23 січ 2025
  • In this Gold Fever episode produced in 2009 for Gold Prospectors Association of America and Outdoor Channel, Tom Massie and his daughter Shae revisit a golden hot spot in the California Motherlode to do some dredging. They visit the LDMA Italian Bar mining camp, and uncover some great stories, memories, and of course gold. Metal detecting, gold panning, and gold dredging techniques are used on the South Fork of the Stanislaus River.

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  • @B0xlife1
    @B0xlife1 9 місяців тому +15

    Miss you guys! So glad to see you all! Post more often please! Love these old episodes!

  • @jamescarroll4116
    @jamescarroll4116 9 місяців тому +12

    Please produce more! Loved the old shows

  • @bigjm3143
    @bigjm3143 9 місяців тому +7

    I miss those shows of gold prospecting

  • @arminiusgratis9439
    @arminiusgratis9439 9 місяців тому +7

    Watched the Buzzard videos back around 1990. Started a 30 year adventure of Prospecting for Gold in the Colorado Rockies !!! Enjoyed Tommy's videos over the years. Thank you, for all that you guys do.

    • @rh5563
      @rh5563 9 місяців тому +2

      I really miss these guys on the airwaves. I know we can’t bring George back, but Tom and Perry are still alive and kicking. The Outdoor Channel really did them dirty. We lost Prospecting America and Gold Fever. The fact that George founded that channel, just pisses me off even more.

  • @TheMadness51
    @TheMadness51 9 місяців тому +2

    Buzzard and Tom via tv introduced me to chasing the butter yella. 24 years later, I still have the want to find the gold. Thank you for giving me the Fever.

  • @brianthayer9784
    @brianthayer9784 9 місяців тому +3

    Miss the show I'm glad I was able to sit down and talk to you and more it was a pleasure to sit down and talk with your dad he was easy to talk to.

  • @croatiansensation6062
    @croatiansensation6062 8 місяців тому +1

    America needs mining and this type of show on TV.

  • @woodconnection7899
    @woodconnection7899 4 місяці тому

    Nice job you two. So many people get only a couple flakes. Love the enthusiasm and that you and your teenage daughter have such a great relationship. The memories are worth more than the gold

  • @timjohnson9406
    @timjohnson9406 9 місяців тому +2

    Blast from the past!! I loved watching these,great to see this i hope there's more.

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 9 місяців тому +2

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS EPISODE! I remember Shae just picks up that motor like it was nothing! She must have been 16 or so at the time. Insane. Those nugs at the end…. Nothing beats that $hit.

  • @RonnieFrancis
    @RonnieFrancis 8 місяців тому +2

    I miss the "GOLD FEVER" shows so bad. People knew I watched it & they would start singing the song. COVID screwed up a lot of stuff but I hope with the GPAA & The Outdoor Channel that you can start back up again. I'm a proud member & learned so much starting off by watching you Tom. Like the tap, tap, tap to walk the gold to the side of the pan & to clean it up really good. But I still have gold fever. Great episode & the fever rages on.

  • @GSProspecting
    @GSProspecting 9 місяців тому +2

    What a blast fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

  • @Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782
    @Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782 9 місяців тому +3

    I used to watch the Buzzard way back when gold was only $400(?) an ounce. I have been a fan ever since.

  • @Marky-j3o
    @Marky-j3o 9 місяців тому +1

    TOM LOVE,LOVE,LOVE YOUR SHOWS PLEASE BRING BACK MORE ,CAN'T GET ENOUGH.WE LOVE YOU !

  • @beverlymoore9524
    @beverlymoore9524 9 місяців тому +1

    WOW! So glad to see You and Your Family Again ❣️

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 9 місяців тому +5

    No freaking way! One of my favorite episodes on Gold Fever! Only a very few episodes posted on this site. It’s a shame. The Buzzard would be proud of the association he started, would not let episodes of Gold Fever and Prospecting America be lost to all of us.
    How has membership been since Tom and Perry were ripped from the airwaves? How the hell did they get booted from the Outdoor Channel? George started that channel! It fires me up when I think about it.

  • @stustanski3912
    @stustanski3912 9 місяців тому +2

    Lived in Tuolumne City and used to watch every show, think of how much gold is in the Stanislaus and Tuolumne forks since dredging has been outlawed

    • @UGHH_PPL
      @UGHH_PPL Місяць тому

      Black oak casino is the best.

  • @RyanCrowley-g5k
    @RyanCrowley-g5k 9 місяців тому +1

    Tom massive is the reason why I metal detect 😂

  • @Bestoftheworstfishing
    @Bestoftheworstfishing 9 місяців тому +1

    Can't believe it's already been 15 years since this episode came out.

  • @anthonywill9672
    @anthonywill9672 9 місяців тому +1

    So awesome!!!! Keep em coming, love this show 😂

  • @wildwisdom56
    @wildwisdom56 9 місяців тому

    Love it. Sitting here in Sonora.

  • @sswwaaf
    @sswwaaf 4 місяці тому

    The wayer looks so nice

  • @johndias6614
    @johndias6614 7 місяців тому +1

    When did California allow dredging again?

    • @UGHH_PPL
      @UGHH_PPL Місяць тому

      Never since 2007

  • @WingmanJohnny
    @WingmanJohnny 9 місяців тому

    Great video

  • @conqueringlion420
    @conqueringlion420 6 місяців тому

    I use to watch on late late tv when the buzzard. Get a hat on Tom for you and your girl

  • @jackdavidson6813
    @jackdavidson6813 9 місяців тому +1

    Nice gold! It was funny watching your bucket drift away.

  • @wesleyweisberg8895
    @wesleyweisberg8895 9 місяців тому +2

    To fix your plug up problem, you really need to ditch that expensive, heavy, crappy dredge hose! I switched over to 4" black Polyethylene Corrugated Drainage Tubing. I cant stress how much of a difference using that tubing made!! Its light weight, cheap, can cut multiple lengths and the BEST PART... EXTREMELY RARE PLUGUPS. Because its ridged it rarely plugs up and works like a dream. In fact, I've never had a plug up in the tube since switching, only plug up location that I rarely get is at the nozzle or in the power jet. I'll never go back to dredge hose. EVER. I hope this helps!!

    • @jjmckay6man1
      @jjmckay6man1 9 місяців тому +2

      this was taped back in 2009 lol. you can't even use gas powered dredges anymore in California.

    • @wesleyweisberg8895
      @wesleyweisberg8895 9 місяців тому

      @@jjmckay6man1 they are not enforcing the ban anymore is what I'm told.

    • @jjmckay6man1
      @jjmckay6man1 9 місяців тому

      @@wesleyweisberg8895 if that is true then that is great.

  • @sswwaaf
    @sswwaaf 4 місяці тому

    Showing local real info honest without hiding stuff like the bif shows

  • @autwins5610
    @autwins5610 2 місяці тому

  • @alejandroalatorre8229
    @alejandroalatorre8229 9 місяців тому

    Is this true?

  • @WayneGray-qp5sc
    @WayneGray-qp5sc 5 місяців тому

    ❤❤😊

  • @sswwaaf
    @sswwaaf 4 місяці тому

    Idont knoe about the gold discovered wow

  • @triple_A_rockhound
    @triple_A_rockhound 9 місяців тому

    😎👍

  • @Donaldperson7
    @Donaldperson7 9 місяців тому

    Great job! That’s paid for the equipment!

  • @mikeobrien4437
    @mikeobrien4437 9 місяців тому

    MORE

  • @richardcrawford5879
    @richardcrawford5879 9 місяців тому +1

    Omg the industry jokes back

    • @goldbaron357
      @goldbaron357 9 місяців тому

      Nah, pretty sure that title goes to the first season of Gold Rush lol.

  • @markopittman2833
    @markopittman2833 9 місяців тому

    to bad they made this illegal. no more dredging

  • @silverclan2020
    @silverclan2020 9 місяців тому

    100 % SALTED PANS

  • @conservativerealist
    @conservativerealist 9 місяців тому +2

    Salted show

  • @50Quid-d3x
    @50Quid-d3x 9 місяців тому

    Too bad the "wife-anator" was too busy to haul a couple of loads before she had to go shopping!

  • @richardcrawford5879
    @richardcrawford5879 9 місяців тому +1

    Fake!!!!

  • @crazedgoldminner7384
    @crazedgoldminner7384 9 місяців тому

    My name is Ken Valentina it was a member since 2015 of the GPA and ldma and it all went downhill it's a big rip-off now and they salt the claims there is no gold on the South fork of the Stanislaus River worth digging for I have lived here and worked here for 30 years there is no gold there don't get suckered in by these crooks

  • @silverclan2020
    @silverclan2020 9 місяців тому +1

    I call bull on this production... I have Never seen any person pull nuggets out that large in that amount in a few days work ... All More like a TV show production... also Dredging is not allowed in California as far as I know since Gov. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger & Sierra Club got a ruled passed against Dredging... So yeah More acting ... than real gold work ... just saying... and if you wanna prove me wrong I live in the central valley not far from Sonora & Italian bar, Jamestown's Woods Creek, Peppermint Creek... so show me ... prove me wrong !!!!

    • @BurtKingery
      @BurtKingery 8 місяців тому +3

      This episode was released before the dredging ban.

  • @ALDProspector
    @ALDProspector 9 місяців тому +1

    Awesome!! Please keep them coming!