I went to spend Fourth of July with my fiancee up on Staten Island and she asked me to bring my equipment up so that I could spend some time hunting at South Beach (not too far from Verrazano Bridge) while she grabbed some rays.
Well, that turned out to be a huge bust !

Spent a lot of time digging odd signals and found absolutely NADA, including 3 or 4 blobs of lead that were ringing up as pretty strong quarter or half-dollar signals.
I was feeling...