ironmountain
Well-Known Member
off topic, but a question for you RD...
wife and her friend have gone rafting the past 2 weekends.... The area of the Menominee they hit is very shallow (under 3') and the current is just enough lazily float..daughter said they were sitting in the water to cool off and pickup "cool rocks".
this stretch has been a portage point for trappers/traders/native americans.... the Menominee Tribe lived on the river. supposedly they were ancestors of the Old Copper Culture Native Americans that lived up here and were mining copper 10k yrs ago...There were 3 other tribes that they shared land with...
I actually found a picture in a book about the trappers and furriers up here and saw a small island that was a Native American settlement....
I knew I recognized that island....it's about 200yds in front of my friend's house on the river....it's crazy, you look from his dock and it's the exact view the pic was drawn from....
i digress...
what's the best way to hunt a river like that? I'll be in waders, with someone with me and tied off just in case....
the bottom is firm with loose sand on top and pebbles/small gravel.....
There are quite a few places that you can see were used... a slope cut out of a bank and a faded path etc....
there has to be "stuff" to dig up.....
sand rake or a garden rake?
wife and her friend have gone rafting the past 2 weekends.... The area of the Menominee they hit is very shallow (under 3') and the current is just enough lazily float..daughter said they were sitting in the water to cool off and pickup "cool rocks".
this stretch has been a portage point for trappers/traders/native americans.... the Menominee Tribe lived on the river. supposedly they were ancestors of the Old Copper Culture Native Americans that lived up here and were mining copper 10k yrs ago...There were 3 other tribes that they shared land with...
I actually found a picture in a book about the trappers and furriers up here and saw a small island that was a Native American settlement....
I knew I recognized that island....it's about 200yds in front of my friend's house on the river....it's crazy, you look from his dock and it's the exact view the pic was drawn from....
i digress...
what's the best way to hunt a river like that? I'll be in waders, with someone with me and tied off just in case....
the bottom is firm with loose sand on top and pebbles/small gravel.....
There are quite a few places that you can see were used... a slope cut out of a bank and a faded path etc....
there has to be "stuff" to dig up.....
sand rake or a garden rake?