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Da Da's Fishing
06-13-11, 04:14 PM
Through my limited fishing to date, I've run into some odd and interesting things on the river. Submerged boards, old tires, and lots and lots of small trash. The only interesting thing that I found was a camera that had been dunked and washed down to below Bowman's. There were some pictures of the kids on the river, but nothing that I could use to ID the owner. The camera was trashed anyway, so only the card and pictures were worth getting back to them. What cool, interesting, or down right odd things have you stumbled upon?
DD F
There was a thread about this a while back and from what I remember there was a "debate" as to ownership of some items found in the river.
Fishmonger has a really cool looking pot that I believe he found in the Hooch.
For me it's only been a pair of Costa's, a few bikini parts (never found the owners) and a shopping cart, and numerous golf balls!
A few weeks back I saw BeaverByte (I think it was) retrieve a 20# dumbell someone had been using as an anchor from the Buford Dam area.
Trout8myfly
06-13-11, 04:55 PM
For me it's a trout. :rolleyes:
While fishing the Chatooga DH this winter, I found an un-opened bottle of New Belgium Brewery Mighty Arrow Pale Ale nestled in the bottom of the river.
Being that the river kept it at a perfect temperature, I opened and consumed it on the spot. Refreshing!
Truittsosebee
06-13-11, 05:41 PM
When I was a kid my dad and I were fishing from our boat on the hooch near Roswell. We were using corn with very limited success and he commented that he wished we would have brought night crawlers. A couple minutes later, an unopened blue cup of worms came floating down the river right to us. We were amazed. He always said he had one wish in life and wasted it on a box of worms.
Swamp Angel
06-13-11, 06:00 PM
I found a nice Shimano baitcaster reel on a wiped out Garcia rod in the 'Hooch by the Atlanta Athletic Club's golf course. The reel cleaned up quite nicely but the rod was a total loss. Also found a twenty-dollar-bill about half buried in the sand on an inside bend in the river about a half-mile up from Medlock Bridge. It's still in my wallet so I can return it to its rightful owner. To claim it, PM me the serial number in order to confirm it is indeed the one you lost.;)
I keep looking, but have yet to find anything truly interesting. Lots of tires and golf balls seem to be available, along with a nearly unlimited supply of aluminum cans of various breeds and brands. . .
knot trying
06-13-11, 06:10 PM
Air compressor tank - minus the electric motor
A large erosion control barrier (apparently not very effective)
Nice trolling motor battery
Lower unit of a Mercury outboard motor - jetboat Jerry got that one
Couple of bubba's clinging to a log after falling out of their canoe
scallen2112
06-13-11, 06:11 PM
... He always said he had one wish in life and wasted it on a box of worms.
:rotfl:
About the most interesting thing I have found was a very, very old axe head way back in a mountain stream. Now if I were listing what I had lost in lakes and rivers...well, that's a mighty long list, with "my dignity" planted firmly at the top.
driftwood
06-13-11, 06:20 PM
So I hate to give up this secret, but this one is still in the river near WW. I saw it the other night while fishing but the water was too high to retrieve it. It is one of those big silver 1980's boom boxes with a cassette still in it. My brother and I tried to get it with a long stick but failed. I am dying to know what cassette is in it. I am pretty sure that thing has been in there for quite some time as it looks very weathered. I've seen plenty of tires and many loss soles....
Da Da's Fishing
06-13-11, 07:21 PM
Now if I were listing what I had lost in lakes and rivers...well, that's a mighty long list, with "my dignity" planted firmly at the top.
I specifically didn't ask that because things somehow jump out of my vest and into the water. I haven't lost anything super expensive, but if it isn't tied down, it is likely to get lost.
DD F
Now that someone mentioned beer, I'm reminded that I need to make my way up into the mountains again. A pair of Sweaty Betty Blondes are (to my knowledge, still) hiding near that pointy rock just upstream from where the trail crosses the water the first time...
A pair of Sweaty Blondes are hiding near that pointy rock just upstream from where the trail crosses the water the first time...
GPS coordinates, please.
Drifter
06-14-11, 07:14 AM
My most unusual find from a river/stream....a piece of sheet metal from the fuselage of an F-15 Eagle that crashed in a remote section of GSMNP in the early '90s.
http://www.pbase.com/stevekeeble/image/129552980/large.jpg
JOHNKIES
06-14-11, 08:03 AM
When I had my cabin on Fightingtown, there was one spot in the creek that was both deep and fast due to a funneling effect by a series of rock formations and it ALWAYS held fish. When the water was low and clear you could see something white in color near the bottom of the chute, but could never get close to it without the risk of getting bashed on the rocks. One very dry summer, the water got low enough that I could get to this object and pulled it up from the river bottom. It was a safe door! Not a kid's toy or your typical little home safe, this sucker was the size of a safe used by a small business.
I called the Fannin County Sheriff's department and they sent a deputy out to collect the door, photograph the location and interview me. They were not aware of any safes being stolen, but as the deputy said, "sometimes folks around here keep things in their safe that they can't report if it's stolen ............".
Windknot
06-14-11, 08:47 AM
At the beginning of DH on the Hooch, we had folks find rusty handguns on either side of I-75!
Personally, the strangest thing I've found was a guitar and amp, in the Yellow River at the bike park. Ted and I also found a shopping cart that had tree roots interwoven thru the wire basket. It's still there.
A helicopter. One of those gas powered varieties they used to fly in the field upriver from GA-20. Somehow no radio controlled plane found its way into the drink
Riverpirate
06-14-11, 09:11 AM
Back in September of last year I found a home safe with drugs tied to it with wire. I turned it over to the local authorities.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o243/Riverpirate01/fishing/PC110173.jpg
fishmonger
06-14-11, 09:38 AM
Baldea, here you go, an old stacker jug. I call it my moonshine jug. It is not cracked or chipped. As I found it, fresh from the river bed:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/fishmonger_ngto/DSCN0384.jpg
Cleaned up:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/fishmonger_ngto/IMG_0276.jpg
FM
revwayne
06-14-11, 10:06 AM
Back in the late 70s we used to haul out at Shake Rag. I was standing in the river at the stern of the jon boat pushing it up the bank and looked down at my wader boot and there in the sand was an upper denture. My first concern was that there may be a body around there somewhere...on closer examination we figured someone probably lost it overboard trying to get out of a rapidly rising river.
fishinbub
06-14-11, 11:26 AM
On one of most remote streams in N Ga, myself and Pittard came across the remnants of an OLD moonshine still. On the same creek we found a tent, hammock, and various other camping gear. Somebody had hiked in there to camp, realized they'd bitten off more than they could chew, and left it...
fishmonger
06-14-11, 11:37 AM
Oh yeah, here is a cool one: I know of 5 old wooden jonboats either embedded in the mud of the river bank, or sunken, at various places along the river. I imagine that they are what used to be commonly used when the Hooch was a lazy, warm river. I am tempted to try and dig one out of the mud and put it the back yard, I think it would be really cool. I have wondered too if anybody would be interested in them from a historical standpoint.
I also know where a sunken structure is that I believe used to be part of the "lost" Hutchins Ferry.
FM
TroutSniper
06-14-11, 03:01 PM
Never found nothin interesting but I bet some one found my first wedding ring in the Hooch around Helen. I lost in a headwater so it may still be there. By the way if someone has found a brushed titanium ring I'm looking for one.
huntfish
06-14-11, 03:16 PM
On one of most remote streams in N Ga, myself and Pittard came across the remnants of an OLD moonshine still. On the same creek we found a tent, hammock, and various other camping gear. Somebody had hiked in there to camp, realized they'd bitten off more than they could chew, and left it...
Thye might have just been fishing or hiking......
Pittard
06-14-11, 03:39 PM
Thye might have just been fishing or hiking......
It had been there a while ;)
Drifter,
I think I have been following you....
http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy198/jgattaway/GSMP0010311/IMG_1324.jpg
huntfish
06-14-11, 04:09 PM
It had been there a while ;)
Cool, I did encounter someone who thought my tent and supplies were "left" there once. Wasn't a funny site, well yes it was....on my side.....
The Ole Man
06-14-11, 05:50 PM
Hey Mark---put a piece of corncob for a stopper in the mouth of that jug. Adds a lot of charm. Mine has one. (mine is just like yours btw).
Drifter
06-14-11, 07:14 PM
Hey Joe....either we fish the same area or there is a fleet of F-15s that are unnaccounted for. :)
http://www.pbase.com/stevekeeble/image/129552976.jpg
Once found a very old boot along the Tallulah with a wild flower growing right up through the busted heel and out the top.
There is at least one - and probably more - very old piece of iron railroad track on the upper Hooch.
Once found the remains of a day-old deer kill on the edge of the water in Cooper Creek, then found its innards stuffed into a hollow tree stump up the bank from the carcass.
Old water pipe from the CCC camp along (withheld) Creek outside Clayton.
One of my favorites is when I left my best pliers on a rock along a favorite "secret" small stream ... then went back a week later and found them, right there where they'd been left.
Read an article once about a centuries-old Indian canoe someone found imbedded in the bank somewhere on the upper Chattooga.
driftwood
06-15-11, 08:27 AM
Hey Joe....either we fish the same area or there is a fleet of F-15s that are unnaccounted for. :)
http://www.pbase.com/stevekeeble/image/129552976.jpg
What is that?
knot trying
06-15-11, 09:13 AM
Looks like a small turbine, possibly an auxiliary power unit or some portion thereof?
Pittard
06-15-11, 10:01 AM
I wonder if the military might like to know where that is :huh:
huntfish
06-15-11, 10:06 AM
If I remember the story correctly, it's a air turbine off a F-15. USAF is well aware where it is located.
What is that?
From what I remember, there was a F-15 that crashed years ago near Dahlonaga/Helen. I think it's part of the turbine engine.
driftwood
06-15-11, 10:15 AM
wow. I just searched it and it appears that two F-15's actually crashed there around 1992 and a f4 Phantom crashed near Old Black mountain in 1984. Apparently a lot of the wreckage was left behind. pretty interesting.
wow. I just searched it and it appears that two F-15's actually crashed there around 1992 and a f4 Phantom crashed near Old Black mountain in 1984. Apparently a lot of the wreckage was left behind. pretty interesting.
Two fighters were in a training exercise and collided in 1992. One plane landed safely and the other pilot ejected and survived. Wreckage is scattered throughout the valley. The remains of the jet are somewhere near Pecks corner shelter. I found debris scattered many spots along the stream we fished. It is pretty interesting history.
Gatorbyte found a doody / nugget
http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp277/salmobrown/2011/Team%20Dead%20Drift/GBavatar.jpg
Probably not that rare or exciting to find one, but to pick it up and take a picture??
Had a bikini top float by me once near JB.. Never found the owner..
Only thing I have a good picture of is this monster head i found on a rock.. It's what keeps me fishing on slow days, right Mark??...lol
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e26/troutnskibum/100_0532.jpg
The Ole Man
06-17-11, 09:26 PM
Drifters photo appears to be a jet engine turbine section inner core.
huntfish
06-22-11, 01:21 PM
The other thread brough this up...From DNR Law Inforcement Notes.http://www.georgiawildlife.com/sites...%2C%202011.pdf (http://www.georgiawildlife.com/sites/default/files/uploads/wildlife/le/pdf/weeklyreports/May%2029-June%204%2C%202011.pdf)
MUSCOGEE COUNTY
On June lOth RFC Mitch Oliver and RFC Jeremy Bolen concluded an investigation that had been ongoing since Labor Day Weekend of 2010. The officers had apprehended three subjects who were diving in the Chattahoochee River in Columbus and removing cultural resources from the river bottom. All of the evidence that the officers had collected had to be sent to the state archeologist to be cataloged, cleaned, and researched to determine the age of the resources. It was finally determined that the majority of the items were of greater age than 50 years old and were indeed cultural resources belonging to the State of Georgia. RFC Oliver met with the Muscogee County Solicitor and it was decided that thet hree would be charged with the violation of removing or interfering with underwater cultural resources.
driftwood
06-22-11, 02:27 PM
The other thread brough this up...From DNR Law Inforcement Notes.http://www.georgiawildlife.com/sites...%2C%202011.pdf (http://www.georgiawildlife.com/sites/default/files/uploads/wildlife/le/pdf/weeklyreports/May%2029-June%204%2C%202011.pdf)
MUSCOGEE COUNTY
On June lOth RFC Mitch Oliver and RFC Jeremy Bolen concluded an investigation that had been ongoing since Labor Day Weekend of 2010. The officers had apprehended three subjects who were diving in the Chattahoochee River in Columbus and removing cultural resources from the river bottom. All of the evidence that the officers had collected had to be sent to the state archeologist to be cataloged, cleaned, and researched to determine the age of the resources. It was finally determined that the majority of the items were of greater age than 50 years old and were indeed cultural resources belonging to the State of Georgia. RFC Oliver met with the Muscogee County Solicitor and it was decided that thet hree would be charged with the violation of removing or interfering with underwater cultural resources.
I used to see people snorkling in the flint in Albany GA looking for Arrow heads. Every so often you would see them getting arrested/ticketed as well.
Now that someone mentioned beer, I'm reminded that I need to make my way up into the mountains again. A pair of Sweaty Betty Blondes are (to my knowledge, still) hiding near that pointy rock just upstream from where the trail crosses the water the first time...
Completely forgot about this thread, but I suppose it's worth noting that I did make my way back up to the little stream in question.
And yes indeedy, under that same rock, my pair of beers were still there, at perfect drinking temperature. Aside from losing both their labels to the forces of mother nature, the pair of bottles were no worse for the wear. :)
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