First Go...

OK, I have made my first try at looking for gold. I went out to a small stream about 30 minutes from home and found a patch behing a large rock that looked promising. But there were hardly any sand/gravel on the bottom - mostly larger rocks...

But I used my Henderson Pump for about 30 minutes and managed to get some smaller sand/particles out - I did not pan them right away but brought them home to "analyze" them later on, maybe tomorrow. I did manage to catch a living crayfish(!) using the pump though :-)