West End Prospectors Corporation
PO Box 87 Norco, CA 92860-0087
www.wepcgold.com

What a trip it was!! We are new members to the club- Jeff and Vickie Fish and here's our story:: Dredged for 10 days straight on the Yuba River on the new claim. We found a quarter ounce of gold
( see attached photos) Met some really nice people ( Garry, John, Don Stan another 2 Don's and many more that showed up) We dredged all day sat around at night waiting for the Deer to wander through the camp, mostly got to see the Fox ( who supposedly followed the Bear)
Yes a Bear- he really liked Don and Stan's camp they were kind enough to leave the Bear their Coffee and a few other things! Oh Stan I am still waiting to hear the joke about the mice and the elephant LOL.
On Saturday when Our trip was coming to an end Jeff took the day off from dredging and decided to go and metal detect a canyon everyone was talking about. It was a trail that was quite overgrown with poison oak and a killer Rose Bush!! Vickie was attacked by that Rose bush. We saw a few Rattlesnakes beautiful in color and just minding their own business.
No sign of the Bear. We hiked through this canyon all the way down to the River where we found some Square nails in Excellent condition and OH Yeah forgot to mention along the way while metal detecting Jeff got a pretty good signal and decided to dig-
What to our surprise! Thinking we were digging another old beer can or piece of metal we dug up a GOLD NUGGET ( 8.9 PENNY WEIGHT) SEE PHOTO.
Talk about exciting!!! Jeff also just got this metal detector as an early birthday present. I guess we were the talk of the camp. Everyone wanted to see and hold that Nugget ( that was Jeff's largest nugget found to date).
All in all the trip was GREAT and we cant wait to get back up there again.- Thanks Jeff and Vickie Fish, Palmdale CA