October River Hunt Musketballs and Stuff

Goldiver · Oct 21, 2007

I hope you all were able to get out and find some cool stuff today.

I had an out of town appointment today, and after that I decided to stop at a nearby river to check it out. The river was very beautiful, next time I will bring my camera to get some photos on site. Anyway I started hiking and looking around for items of interest. I noticed at some rock formations there were many lead fishing jigs visible, so I went back to the car and grabbed my Vibraprobe and a small rock pick and went to work. After three hours I ended up with 20 POUNDS of lead, including some musketballs, buck shot, and misc relics. Boy am I tired!

tymcmurray · Oct 21, 2007

Nice cleanup.

Kas · Oct 21, 2007

Holy moely. Did they hit anything with those shots or was it fourth of July?

Heck of a bucket full

Ken

Goldiver · Oct 21, 2007

Kas said:
Holy moely. Did they hit anything with those shots or was it fourth of July?

Heck of a bucket full

Ken

I should have said the third photo is the musketballs and misc relics, everything else is fishing jigs and weights....sorry.

MarkDz · Oct 21, 2007

Goldiver said:
I should have said the third photo is the musketballs and misc relics, everything else is fishing jigs and weights....sorry.

Wow, I also thought those big buckets were mostly musket balls!... my first reaction was that you might have discovered some sort of bizarre underwater battlefield. Nice haul either way. I just got back from my own local river where I always enjoy diggin' up some lead. Cheers!

WhiteHunter · Oct 22, 2007

At least you have to buy any fishing weights for a while

Evolution · Oct 22, 2007

Oh my gosh thats alot of lead. Melt it all down and make some lead bars........and then imagine that they're silver

whitesid · Oct 26, 2007

nice finds

are you going to scrap all that lead?

CRUSADER · Oct 26, 2007

WhiteHunter said:
At least you have to buy any fishing weights for a while

Said like a true fisherman, I agree. Or you could make friends by giving them to fishermen & you never know where that may lead

(hint more land)

kg6yll · Oct 26, 2007

Thats the way to do it. Clean out everything

olegoat · Oct 26, 2007

melt all the lead into one big sinker, attach a big hook and go fishing for the big one-lol
nice cleanup of the mess, good for you

Goldiver · Oct 26, 2007

whitesid said:
nice finds

are you going to scrap all that lead?

Yes, I will be melting it down and making things like duck decoy anchors to sell to duck hunters and what ever else I can think of. The lead weights are a real pollution issue around that river, it has affected the water quality. I had read about it but I needed to see it for myself for it to sink in. It has changed my thinking on using lead for fishing, as you can see all that lost lead does add up. Going forward I will use alternative metal sinkers. You can bet I will be going many more times to round up the lead and help clean up the river.