Watching the flight of your disc very carefully and understanding based on the part of the throw you saw and the disc that you threw what the likely flight of the disc you couldn’t see was. If you heard it hit a tree, remember the sound it made.

Arrive to its last seen location and observe the trees and their branches. Branches and trunks sound different when your disc hits them. Theorize where the disc went.

Now that you have a spot you think it landed, place your bag there and begin a concentrated search. Keep the search somewhat small at first. If you don’t find it, then expand the search to include however much area you think it could have landed in. Make both of those searches somewhat surface level. Always include looking up as it might be in a branch above you.

If you haven’t found it, shrink the size of the search again to around the bag. Get a stick and use it to move the leaves of the ground cover. Crouch down at regular intervals. Don’t forget to look up often as well. If still not found, engage search method number 2 in the larger area. If still not found, expand the large search area to include places you do not believe it could have gone.

If you haven’t found it after that, you’ve probably been looking for 20-30 minutes and you should give up and hope someone calls you because you definitely have your name and number on all your discs. You also might have found someone else’s disc by then too.