This past Memorial weekend I was up in Northern Michigan at my buddys cabin and he took me to a little beach around 7 miles away to do some water hunting with my Excailbur II. This is a man made lake and I quickly learned it wasn't going to be easy to hunt because of the clay bottom. Bringing up every scoop was a workout in itself, and then trying to get it to sift was another. The water was still only around 65 degrees so I was wearing my waders. After only a few minutes, one of the locals came up and had told me her neighbors husband only 2 doors down, had lost some gold jewelry 2 years ago out in front of the house in the lake and that I should go talk to her. I told her I would like to help her out, just send her over to me and I'd would like to get some details from her. A few minutes later she (Nancy) came by and explained to me her husband (Richard) of 40yrs had lost a gold charm she had custom made for him 15 years ago for their 25th anniversary. Two years ago, when he was in the lake right out in front of their cottage the chain clasp broke, the big heavy chain and charm went right to the bottom of the lake. Richard, a Viet Nam Marine Veteran was unable to find the treasured anniversary gift and he and his wife were just sick. Fortunately, Richard knew exactly where he lost it, which was in about 4 feet of water and his next door neighbor ended up finding the chain...but unfortunately no charm. Nancy had showed me exactly where he had lost it, which was about 25ft off the shore, in a washed out area in the clay, and that since then they had dumped around 2 feet of new sand around the first 15 feet off the shoreline. That had concerned me, even though the charm was lost 10 feet beyond the sand. Nancy and Richard had the whole family of kids and grand kids over for the holiday weekend all were really interested in this stranger with the funny looking waders and metal detector.