Don’t Tell the Hoffmans About This Place…

[@alienallen2983]

THANK YOU BRAD AND SCOTT 🙂💥👍🙏>>>💚

[@edvidson7]

I'm a member of GPAA. I've always watched your videos because of metal detecting. With that being said, I think this would be great "alternative" to your usual video's...Because. I remember you being sick? I PRAY you're feeling better!... 🙏🙌🙏

[@DavidBall-v5i]

My Friday morning happy place. Thanks Brad!!!

[@richardthomas1743]

Good morning Brad! Merry Christmas everybody!!

[@DG8RS]

What a great spot to pan. Great to see you back to your old ways!

[@markg1490]

Glad to see you feeling well enough to get out and do things you like. Thank you for sharing. I love your videos

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

This was from this past summer.

[@ddleee]

Good fun change, Brad. Thank you.

[@Kevin-wx4un]

The Hoffmans would find a way to miss it all, ha. Most gold is safe from their family.

[@raylynngiroux5525]

😂 your right about the Hoffman's not finding the gold

[@jeanninehoban2788]

Great video, beautiful scenery...thanks for sharing! Be well!

[@tonydagostino6158]

Judging from the abundance of boulders, whole trees and scour of the bank it looks like there'd been some serious flash flooding and rapid flow near the time of the video. Wow, that was a lot of gold for the first pan! The "rocks in bands" make those low spots in the stream bed so the heavy gold and garnets fall out into the lows while the water flows past like a natural sluice box

[@raylynngiroux5525]

It's funny that your best piece of raw gold you found want even in the river.😅 But I was happy to hear that nugget was native Vermont gold.

[@masonmercmetaldetecting]

Scott is a good dude, we had the pleasure of meeting him at BONE 31. That looked like a great day treasure hunting! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and both your families Brad and Scott.🙂🌲🎅✌️

[@davidgonzales8148]

Great gold find congrats

[@statue98]

Great adventure!

[@RailCityRelics802]

A secret spot is like a built-in sluice box. My dad used to take me gold panning with his best friend as a kid up on gold creek and stowe.

[@RailCityRelics802]

My dad and his buddy fabricated this device to suck stuff out of those cracks of said sluice box. Kinda resembles it a giant syringe in a way. It's known as the suck-a-matic.

[@Lakemichigangirl]

Great video really enjoyed it.

[@bobmanzi7712]

great stuff thanks, that looked like a lot of fun

[@peggybaxter8480]

Thanks for taking us along?

[@Otterman-vx1zy]

Welcome to the Gold Family, glad to have ya, many great creators on this topic

[@Purplesuiter]

This place reminds me of Huntington Gorge, where I used to swim with my family. You ever been there? Lots of swimmers and several swimming deaths over the years. Might be some treasures there!. I haven’t lived in VT for 50 years, and enjoy watching you treasure around my home state! Happy Holidays, Brad!

[@zenseed75]

This looks like such a relaxing hobby.

[@Noxman1]

There's gold in them there hills!

[@MaxChampagne69]

Long time subscriber here. Love thee title of this one, Brad. It's good advice. I have a new appreciation of you.

[@Mike00982]

Enjoyed the video very much and it's great to see that your feeling a lot better. Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Glad that you were able to salvage your camera! Even though you were finding a fair amount of gold there it sure is backbreaking tedious work! Beautiful creek! Merry Christmas!

[@maxsands3861]

Merry Christmas everyone and best of luck in the coming new year!

[@EarlMenefee]

Great video Brad !!!

[@jamesreal7987]

VERY COOL MERRY CHRISTMAS MEN.GREAT JOB

[@grangranzulaski1084]

Fun video. I live in Oregon and many years ago when I was younger. y husband and I owned a gold claim had fun times there. Never found a lot as we were not able to go often but there is lots out there.

[@Janer-52]

Such a fun video! Thanks for reposting.

[@PowRKord]

Enjoyed this @ original posting. Keep healing, Brad. ^5!

[@kayrolofson6753]

Good morning Brad, Merry Christmas

[@susiek.johnson3923]

Merry Christmas ⛄️❄️🎄🎁🧣✨️🎄☃️ Good to see you are well 😊

[@marierobinson2681]

Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the new year

[@Stephen_M.]

Brad, throw your wet camera into a Ziploc full of rice for a few days and then try it again. The rice may draw the moisture out of the electronics.

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

He did get the camera working again.

[@mysticmimaw]

I had no clue that there was gold in Vermont!! Thanks for taking us along. Take care Brad❤😊

[@MariaJohnson-o1l]

Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄🎄🎄🎅

[@davidbiddy1411]

Golden Brad

[@karenforrester5913]

Happy Holidays.

[@Philip-w5l]

Glad you made it through the illness 🕊️🌹🙏... Many years ago, I worked in a gold extraction operation that was located in the wasteland of South west Nevada...I have no idea how much gold they found because the supervisors were really very secretive..I was aware of the steps they employed in gold extraction but, I was not invited to see or help with collecting the end product... That is what surprised me about your openers and public media coverage of your hunt... Gold miners are always very secretive... Farewell and I will pray for your success ...😎

[@canoetipper019]

Happy Christmas. I hope you are doing okay. Cheers

[@genegorringe7395]

Very nice video I definitely enjoyed it thank you. Be safe watch your six Gene Gorringe Mi 💛 💙 🇺🇲 🇬🇧

[@rondathiesen9317]

Great going Brad and Scott. Wish I were along! Merry Christmas to you and yours. May 2025 bless you with GREAT health and joy. 👍😘🎄🎅⛄️🦌☃️❄️🍬❤️

[@johnnykananaskis335]

You need a portable sluice box to process a lot more classified material.

[@heden1460]

My son wants to learn to do the gold panning. We just need to find someone who can take us and show us what and where we can go. Nice video.

[@leonardcontarino7940]

wow , i need to explore the Appalachians geology more

[@user-Icicleandfireball]

0 like, happy friday, love your metal detecting videos

[@jamesfowley4114]

I've seen cat's paws like that one when I was a kid. I'm 66 now, so the age of it is up in the air.

[@Proteus41]

Brad, contact Jeff Williams he is a gold hunter legend. He would drop down into the mine shaft and explore it. Also he will teach you more ways than you want to know about gold lol!

[@jillianfortuna2348]

👍👍

[@jdgoesham5381]

I've been all over Vermont and only found it in a few spots. Vermont doesn't seem to have a lot of it. Spots I have found it are in the Moretown area in that river that goes through Moretown(gorgeous spot I used to live on and the rainbow trout fishing is good as well) and in the mountains around Rutland below the ski resorts. Which is what I'd guess this area is..Killington mountain area? The fly fishing/trout fishing there in that area is amazing as well. But it's been so little. Here in Maine there seems to be a lot more spots to find gold and gems though maybe that's because Maine is like 10 times the size of Vermont idk. It's a poor area of the state but man in the Killington area a sick spot for outdoors stuff for cold and warm weather fun. Here in Maine I've always heard the Swift River holds sizeable nuggets but never took the time to go. I might this year. I also plan on going watermelon tourmaline hunting near where I live at this old mica mine that they find big specimens at(though I never have myself found it there but I've found other gems there)..Mount Mica or something it's called? It's in the Paris ME area if anyone wants to check it out)

[@lundysden6781]

I thought it was being mined comercially and closed to collectors? I hunted there 25 yrs ago and found lots of tiny pink and green tourmaline crystals and other minerals. I use to pay to go on collecting tours there but then it changed hands and was closed for many yrs.

[@Sean-i4r]

You are in Bridgewater my friend

[@Jim-b4t]

Not exactly the el dorado, but those couple of grams beats my total by far!

[@Eelbackwards]

Were those black garnets in that first pan?

[@joshdyer3670]

At the beginning of the video when you were talking about the private side of the stream, it looked like someone took an excavator to the bank?

[@marksmallman4572]

Dont retire just yet guys!

[@dougwalker4944]

when was this footage taken?

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

This past summer.

[@bethcorey6022]

BRAD, how did you get it from pan to container to take out of ther, what’s the procedure?😮

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

I think they use a small plastic bottle with a sort of syringe on the end, kind of like a mini turkey baster. He shows the bottle at the very end where he shows all the gold they found that day.

[@OldmanWithaGoldPan-o2g]

What’s the coordinates of Scots spot again? lol

[@Philip-w5l]

The good for nothing yellow metal that makes the white man crazy! That's an old Native American metafore...😂

[@chrisgabbert658]

How’s it going 👋🏻 .

[@yankeewatchdog6493]

EUREKA!!!

[@falco485]

Hoffmans started gold rush but they never learned how to find it, like Parker and Beets

[@MarciaShackelford-st5bt]

Yeah. It was disaster after disaster with them.

[@davidronan1677]

Is this a new vedio?

[@madmattdigs9518]

Why? You don’t want Todd to sing about your spot?

[@dougfuqua7868]

864

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

Meaningless banter and once again wasting our very very valuable time.... I'm thinking 🤔... Class action lawsuit 😂