Nice hole for a 2 1/2 dredge

[Leonard]

This was before my 4" dredge. No air, just a lot of hard work. That was about 20 years ago. Oh to be young again and have the money I have now. Not rich, just not broke.
Leonard

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[Jim_Alaska]

Isn't it amazing what we used to do out of pure necessity? That is the dredge I started out with too, it has moved a lot of river material. Unfortunately most of that material was not gold bearing simply because I didn't know what I was doing. After all doesn't pure reason tell us that all that sand and small pebbles go up the nozzle easier? No plug ups or cobbles to throw either.

[Leonard]

Right up stream and to the right of that big rock we found a 2 1/2 gram nugget about the size of a nickel. The next year after spring runoff all of that gravel was missing. A few years ago a flood came through and the water was over the top of the big rock. We couldn't get in there for about 2 years and then they bulldozed everything around and now it's almost impossible to work the area.

[Jim_Alaska]

The narrow nature of that gorge should have made for good deposits. You sure had a good hole going there for a small dredge and no air.