Sandbars, muddy rivers and arrowheads?

[SwampHunter]

I live in a place where we have only muddy rivers with sandbars. I know where there are a lot of Indian camps at on the dirt bluff banks, some of which are falling off into the river. I have never found an arrowhead in any of the rivers before but I have heard of tohers finding them. Digging the bluff banks would be dangerous because the bank often caves in and digging would have to be done from a boat. So where do you look for arrowheads in these types of rivers? Where would you look for on the sandbars? Would like to start hunting the rivers more since I can hunt them year round. Any input would be appreciated.

 

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[bigrush828]

You could try bringing a sifter and sift through the sand, or even rake around the sand. Where I am at, all we have are rocky creeks and rivers. We have some sandbars, but almost never "pure" sand.

 

[IllinoisDug]

I like looking for eroded areas on top of the bluffs or areas by the creek where there are other rocks. Then I take a hard look at as many of those rocks as possible.

 

[SwampHunter]

No rocks here unless they were brought in. All swamps and sand hills. The rivers only have sand and mud in them.
When the water drops I thought about looking at the head of the sandbars. Only problem with that is most of the camps were just down river of the sandbars on the run side. I have heard of folks finding arrowheads on some sandbars but not sure where.
As soon as the flood water drops I will try several different spots and see what works best. Just figured someone might have a bit of insight but I guess no one here hunts muddy rivers?

 

[SOHIO]

Sounds like sandbars are your best bet unless you like working hard at sifting a river bottom. And search the whole sandbar