creekwalk may 5

[jesster64]

I went for a walk in a creek today. Heavy rains past few weeks and more 2 days ago, but it was such a nice day and I had a few hrs free time. creek is hidden pretty well.

 

[jesster64]

 

[jesster64]

Hello

 

[jesster64]

wild turkey also walking the creek. Saw a lot of BIG clams. didn't know we had fresh water clams.

 

[jesster64]

I followed some tire tracks for about 400 yards. hoping to spot a dump. Nothing.

 

[jesster64]

todays finds, 2 milk shards, a couple soda shards. medicine top. Oh well, got some fresh air and only grabbed 1 poison ivy vine.

 

[swizzle]

Take a coat hanger or an arrow tipped with a field point and poke around a bit where you found those shards. There's gotta be more there somewhere's. Unless it all washed down from farther upstream. Swiz

 

[jesster64]

I have a good claw handle I scratch the area with. Due to heavy rains, I feel they washed down from somewhere else. Exactly where is what I have to keep exploring to find.

 

[woodswalker]

I couldn't view your pics( if they are in photobucket I'm blocked here at work)...but I live in MI and I have a collection of some of the biggest freshwater clam shells I've ever seen....they are also good eating. And another thing is where there are turkeys there are feathers and some of them are beautiful...I have quite a collection of those to...
Happy hunting!
Amanda

 

[CreekWalker]

Hi , go back to the original spot where the shards were found. If you have a portable GPS mark the location or tye surveyors tape in the general vicinicy. Shards do not carry far in a stream, unlike a whole bottle they have no buoyancy. In strong water current, or in a stream with very little downstream grade, shards generally are carried less than 100 feet before depositing in a sand or mud drift. Shards usually impact into a soft bank and stick in the mud. If the stream is rock lined with natural stone , brick from dumping or has rip rap, look upstream a few dozen feet for the rest of the shards or a bottle. Shards in a stream bank may be the very location for a mud or sand deposited dump or filled in gully full of bottles and debris. A dump, if it's there but can't be seen. Here's how to find it.