Recent content by elbowgrease

Thanks mate Would be great to know. I guess there are still plenty of offshoots worth a poke around which are normally dry, either will need to wait for a weekend with a bit better weather!

Just wondering if anyone that lives close by knows what the creek is looking like at the moment? Have an itch to get out and dig but with all the rain lately my guess would be its probably in flood. Cheers Adam

I've tried heaps of different ways of separating Reedy Creek gold and black sands but probably the most efficient Ive found is to use a goldpan with a large base, dump all your cons in it, with a shallow covering of water work all your cons to the front of the pan agitating to get the gold to...

I've personally pulled a .33g picker, .21g picker and a few smaller bits ranging from .08 -.12 from Reedy Creek over the last few years, a very good mate of mine who I took along to one of my favourite hot spots outdid me (yes digging out of my very own hole) with a small nugget weighing 0.65g...

I try and look for consistent 10-15 specs in the pan to set up the gear or the presence of slightly coarse gold, there are still a few pockets around that have coarser gold (you can feel it between your fingers as opposed to the dust type gold you can't feel at all) which make up the weight a...

I normally aim at a gram a day with the banker. I generally dig with a mate and split the proceeds. The last few trips have all been 2g - 2.5g days so after splitting it down the middle both my mate and I still clear a gram each. My less productive days are when I'm testing or set up the gear...

Reedy Creek is on the list of exempted rivers and streams because as a whole prospecting is not allowed in Reedy Creek except the area specifically designated for prospecting. There are parts of Reedy Creek which you are not allowed to prospect in, including but not limited to immediately below...

Geez thats some dedication, haha I get the shits up doing the drive from Shepparton LOL

Fine gold :)

My wife won't let me prospect alone, nothing to do with security \ dodgy people, simply shes knows all to well the places I go and the crazy things I try. If I was to bust an ankle crossing rough terrain or be standing waist deep in water and have a rock roll over and pin my leg or something I'd...

Some stretches are looking pretty narrow and pretty shallow, barely a trickle, but shouldn't be too hard to find pools to highbank from, not sure what its like right down the Eldorado end as I didn't venture that far down but I'm guessing there wouldn't be much flow at all. The upside is you can...

We'll Saturday was a bit of a fizzer, got to Reedy a bit later than I had hoped maybe 4ish, the spot that I was hoping to dig had a bloke camping there working it named Barney. Had a bit of a chat, seemed like a top bloke and he was doing ok which was good to hear! Ended up trying a spot a...

I'll also be there for the weekend, up by about Saturday lunch time and all day Sunday. I was there the weekend of the Australia Day weekend which was just after the rain which was the Thursday and Friday prior to. The rain had some flow back in it but even still was still down, don't think...

Yeah I'm pretty unfamiliar with the area so I wouldn't really know where else to start looking! Got the camping trip out there in a few weeks time that the wife has organised so I'll give it at least one more crack. I dunno if the gold is deep or how far you need to go in the creek bed to reach...

Bloody stupid me never even got the camera phone out! The wife might have a few photos of the young fellas rolling around on the picnic blanket out on the river bank but I don't think that'll be terribly helpful LOL I normally use the square ended post hole shovel as I find it does a better job...