I hunt a couple VERY productive north central IL farm fields separated by a creek. For miles, before it gets to my area, the creek has a mud bottom and runs through flat farmland with no trees. But when it gets to the fields where I hunt the creek changes. First, it now has woods on both sides of it with fairly steep banks that lead up to the fields I hunt. This creek still has a mud bottom in places but there are many areas with a sandy bottom and places with a gravel bottom. There really are no dry, exposed gravel beds anywhere. The creek is about 15 ft wide and 2-4 ft deep in normal conditions. The current is rather slow but moves faster in spots. The fields I hunt have a lot of chert and I find concretions of chert in the creek as well as in the smaller feeder creeks.
I am thinking since there are artifacts in the fields then there has to be artifacts in the gravel on the bottom of the creek. Correct? Scoop and sift the gravel through a screen thing (seen YouTube guys doing it)? Make a viewer? What about where the bottom is sand? Or mud? Worth checking that stuff?
Thanks for any suggestions.
I am thinking since there are artifacts in the fields then there has to be artifacts in the gravel on the bottom of the creek. Correct? Scoop and sift the gravel through a screen thing (seen YouTube guys doing it)? Make a viewer? What about where the bottom is sand? Or mud? Worth checking that stuff?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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