Tahoe is a beautiful lake and its only about an hour's drive from my home. No matter what you find with your detector, the view here is hard to beat! Although the water is cold almost year 'round, people do play in the water and on the beach, and the various beach sites all have good jewelry potential. The main problems here are related to access. Make sure on places like this that you are not trespassing or breaking any other laws, rules or regulations when you detect. The pain of a citation can be pretty bad.

HUNTING THIS SITE WITH THE MXT:
The beaches here consist of  deep granitic sand - moderately mineralized with an occasional hotrock. Targets have a tendency to sink in, so depth of detection is important.   As far as trash, there is some significant pop-tops, and in places they are excessive. My preferred setting on the MXT is to use the coin and jewelry mode, with a discrimination setting  at just under 4. The 10x6 DD is preferred over the standard 950 because of its ability to pick coins out between pop-tops, foil and hotrocks.

Hawaii is a beautiful place and these comments represent my experiences hunting on beaches along the northeast shores of Oahu. No matter what you find, the view here is hard to beat - I guess that goes with a lot of beaches. Like most beaches, people do play in the water and on the beach, and the various beach sites all have jewelry potential. Where I hunted most everything sunk in on the beach and it was very well hunted  - there were few targets on the beach itself. Remember that popular beaches do get pounded - it can be best to hunt right after a big holiday weekend, so you can beat the competition to the punch! Here on Oahu, I actually did much better off the beach in the adjoining park. It was little hunted and I quickly picked up around $10 worth of clad.   
HUNTING THIS SITE WITH THE MXT:
The beaches here vary  - most are white coral with basalt hotrocks, but some are volcanic and are mostly small basalt rocks. Basalt has a lot more iron and  mineral than coral, and they can make a nasty  hotrock. You may need to turn down the detector to make it more stable. Targets have a tendency to sink in, so depth of detection is important.   As far as trash, well, I just didn't find a lot of targets on the beach. My preferred setting on the MXT is to use the coin and jewelry mode, with a discrimination setting  at just under 4. The 10x6 DD is preferred over the standard 950 because of its ability to pick coins out between pop-tops, foil and hotrocks. At beaches with few hotrocks and little trash, one might choose to use the standard 950 coil because of its greater depth of detection.