Whats your experience with.........

[Old Katz]

What has been your experience with MDing along the banks of creeks
running through or near small out of the way towns?
Katz

 

[tab-nabit]

I like the creeks & small streams. Follow the paths the folks use, hit the ones that cross the creek. Look for areas that pool up and if you see any rope up in the trees, work that area and the water where kids may have been swimming. Also areas where they park their vehicles and walk to the creek. Any spots where they may sit which provide a nice view.
Watch for any homeless that may live in the area. I ran into a few. Generally it's no problem but just be aware. I usually take the dogs along. Some of the more stagnant creeks can have loads of mosquitoes you have to watch for.
Found coins, jewelery, toys odd & ends. The streams that have fish watch for fishing hooks etc. I got a good old rusty poker hook in me good once. Some of the other streams around here in California produces gold. Some areas along and near streams can produce relics from the old camp mining days. During hot weather season, watch for the rattlesnakes.
Some of the streams I didn't get along well were the real rocky ones where it's hard to work. The wet ones can be slippery when wet.
I do well along some streams and not so well along other. Just have to find the spots.
[add] I mostly use small coils. Like to swing the small paths that cross the creek and along the exposed tree roots anywhere at swimming holes and work among brush at the path edges.

 

[Wolfdog]

I agree, I have had some good luck at this areas also. Fish hooks and lead sinkers you will find,but you will find some goodies to.

 

[mcdpoor]

My father and I used to walk the creeks and along the Mississippi river drifts and you can find some cool stuff with or without a metal detector. Old bottles, glass stoppers, arrow heads. Just about anything washes down the old creeks.. My father took me were a hobo camp was located in the 1940;s and we found some cool old stuff.. Also the Mississippi river drifts you could find enough baseballs and other type balls to keep the whole neighborhood supplied..
Of course all this was when I was younger and I am now 50 but that was the good old days. Warning watch out for snakes.

 

[Uncle Willy]

If you hit the fishing holes and swimming holes where they had a rope swing it can be good. Also anywhere along the banks where they conducted outdoor baptisms.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I was yanked up on the banks of the Mighty Missasloppy and you can find just about anything along that river and its tributaries, dead, alive, or otherwise.

Bill

 

[slingshot]

"Yanked up"? Is that where the "twitchin" came from?

 

[DJR]

I don't know what part of the country you live in but I always do research of the areas I detect and if you have a good "historical society" look at old maps read old books as where people settled and where favorite swimming holes were and events from the past took place. Also there were lots of mills back in the days grain and lumber and you may find relects from those locations. Old bridge sites railroad and roads. Where wagon roads crossed, encampments from various wars, etc... were mostly situated along creeks and river systems.

It is one of my favorite palces to hunt as you never know what you'll find!

Good luck

Don

 

[Uncle Willy]

Could be.

Bill

 

[jim in bklyn]

While I was stationed in Algiers LA (across the river from New Orleans), aboard the Kenneth M. Willett, DE 354, I was putting up stantions for the fantail awning. As I was putting up the hooks at the top of the pole, balancing myself on a depth charge rack and the top of the pole while jumping off, my class ring got caught on the pole and I was literally hanging by my finger. The ring cut into my finger nice and deep and it took 13 stitches to close the wound. The Chief Corpsman had to cut it out of my finger with pliers. I just about passed out as they say men with finger wounds have a tendency to pass out. Anyway, when I was able, I took my ring and threw it into the mighty Mississippi, never to be seen again. Some things you just never forget. Jim

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I never where rings for that reason and others. I've seen guys loose their fingers when they fell and the ring caught on something leaving them on the ground with no finger and the tendon in their arm stretched out and still attached to the finger up above. Since I worked on commercial construction there was always the danger of loosing a finger or getting electrocuted when it touhed or came near something hot.

Bill

 

[dahut]

Water was the primary focus in the past as to where people lived, worked and played.
Back when roads were few and horses pulled wagons, waterways, from creeks to rivers, attracted the people.