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Finally enough water in the seasonal creeks to prospect a little. My wife and one of my sons And me went out Monday to check a spot we found last summer. We ran a couple of buckets at a random spot and found a little color and a couple of pickers that look like rolled mouse droppings. Most of the gold was in the loose over burden. The blue clay was a real chore to work but was holding gold also. Went and checked the creeks today and there ripping 2 inches of rain last night. We marked our spot so that I don't go back and work my own tailing's. I checked a couple of creeks up near Georgetown they looked like rivers they had 4'' 1/2 inches of rain last night.

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I we wait for fast water and deep water ,have to wait for the water to get deep enough even in Idaho to run my 2 dredges one 8inch and one 8 choked to a 6inch cause of the regulations ,got tired of paning gold and use wheels now ,so much faster and easyer than paning .

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DearMatt ,the first one is a 8inch surface dredge with a 8inch sub surface blow hog hung under it,it drives itself, off the trailer ,and down to the water, its real heavey, and the second picture is of what, we move it with ,it has a lot of power, and moves equipment fast,i build heavy to last , lite weight stuff dont last with steady use ,

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DearMatt ,the first one is a 8inch surface dredge with a 8inch sub surface blow hog hung under it,it drives itself, off the trailer ,and down to the water, its real heavey, and the second picture is of what, we move it with ,it has a lot of power, and moves equipment fast,i build heavy to last , lite weight stuff dont last with steady use ,sometimes we go 50-80 feet deep in fast water on the Salmon River, and the Snake River in Idaho,Where im from ,and lived most of my life ,

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Larry,

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I love Idaho. I have spent some time up that way and lived in Jackson,

Wy. after college. Interviewed for a job in Bellview south of Ketchum. I think they got some gold there.

My folks live in Ketchum and Ashton. My Dad spends a lot of time on the Henry's Fork fishing.When I head

up there this summer, I plan on taking my gold pan and cheking out the streams in their back yards.

I wish I could set up a dredge like that here in Cali.

Cheers.

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G'day All, Wish we had some running water here in the Challis area ( Custer Co. ) Idaho. Right now at 0930 in the morning its -10 F and all our water is solid so no slucing or such so I'm just working black sand-slooooow process. Justs sitting here wishing I was someplace else swinging my detector. Oh well I think I will go out and see if the ATV will start...Wish I was in Arizona right now.

.....Idaho Al :angry2:<_<:unsure:

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Dear Idaho al , it will be spring soon and good weather , im just as board as you ,im down here in Texas , waiting to go home to Lewiston and get my gear out , and go dredgeing and hunting nuggets again , here are some Salmon River nuggets to look at and think of spring ok Larry Lagal

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Dear Idaho Al Im from Lewiston, and my wife is from Clarkston, across the river in Washington , Orifeno , i drove that river road to there, all the time, at 70 miles an hour on that river road, across the bridge and through town up that mountain lots, to see friends that lived up there , you could see your tail lites on some of the corners in the old road , rough too , I was raised up river in Eik City and Golden on Nusem Creek on the North and South forks of the river, my foster brother, is from Lapway on the res, sure do miss home , the valley grows on ya ,just like Orifino does , its all changeing up river all the time, Kamei , Kooski , Stites , Harpster , Graingevile, Rigins , i miss them all the time , good to hear from someone back home , its different back there ,its good to talk to you, well talk again ok, Larry Lagal

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Hey Larry, I got a bunch of family up there in Clarkston, what a small world! I haven't been up there in over 10 years but I've heard that the area has changed a lot since then. I have alot of fond memories fishing on the Grande Ronde when I was a kid. Anway thanks for sharing your stories and pictures!

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Dear Sean C. ,the fishing is still good after all these years , when they tore down the old Lewiston Dam ,yhe fish stoped for a while , but the Steelhead, and the Salmon, the trout, and catfish , even the Stergun, are regulated now you can keep only sertain sizes ,The sturgen were up to 12 feet long, and we had the bigest Catfish ever, the Steelhead would hang to the ground, lets show them some fish from Lewis-Clark valley

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Dear El Darado if you mean the fish my mom is holding , it is a trout that went to the Ocean for a year and came back to spawn ,lay eggs ,then they are called Stealheads , and it probably weighed 30 pounds , sorry i got off the topick, but I was braging , wouldnt you ? so ill get back on subject , sure wish i was home, so i could go sluceing, and panning,By for now , please forgive me for braging so much ok,is this the fish ?

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Dear Matt you were talking about seting up a big dredge , how,s this for big ? it,s on the Salmon river in north Idaho , and it,s as big as it looks , just thought id show you what a big one looks like ok, see Ya later, by for now Larry, just another dredger , Oh the dredge is in the starting of the Hell,s Canyon in Idaho , You know the river of no return ,

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Dear Dutch John does any body in these pic,s look familiar?? ( Larry ) a bit of the past, dont you think??? I have all the family albums, even 50 years of gold nuggets, and hunting, and mineing ,and the people from the past, who made some of it all posible ,

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Great pictures Larry, those looked like some amazing times. Too bad we dont have a little fishing forum on here for us prospectors to post some more pics like that. seeing those nuggets and those fish, i had to wipe the drool away. I could fill up pages with great fishing pics.. im still lacking in the gold area though..lol

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Dear Landon Im verry sory I got way off base wiyh the pic,s , and apoligise , for makeing you droul on the keyboard , ok, ill stay on the subject from now on , I went sluceing and cause it was raining again Iwent in a cave and guess what i found ,to my amayze? this and a matching one too Larry

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