Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 One of my out of state fossil buddies has been begging me to get him a load of Pleistocene sand dollars lately so I obliged yesterday when winds at the coast allowed me to run miles across the open bay near Corpus Christi, TX in my 12 foot jon boat. In a couple hours I picked up 23 LBS of Mellita quinquiesperforata sand dollars and a few gastropods. I didn't expect to find that many since I worked the site pretty hard a year ago, but the constant forces of Ma Nature combined with remoteness of the site worked in my favor. Afterward I drove around scouting for excavations on dry land. One produced a number of bleached Pleistocene shells as well as a few fish bones which I believe are gill plates. I got a few horse tooth fragments and a very ugly shard of mammoth bone as well. It's hard for me to run to the coast without fishing so I anchored my boat under a bridge and threw live shrimp in the channel at dusk. I was hoping for an oversized black drum but ended up throwing back a small speckled trout and a small redfish, but ultimately landed a fat 20" tiderunner speck after dark. Fishing was slow overall, but the trout fried in cornmeal supplemented with a bait shrimp boil left my family of 3 pushing away from the fat and happy with leftovers for tomorrow. I love those double dip trips! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Great fossils! I'm glad you had a good trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Looks like a nice trip, nice trout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Ahhh, fossils and fish! Sounds like a great day. Some of those Pleistocene sand dollars looks very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Yes dan. Nice echs I must say. I do have some of those that are modern, but it would be nice to have one of those older ones to go along with one of mine. Nice fish too! A bit colder up here in Montana, but here is one from last week. WooooHooooo!!! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 25, 2008 Author Share Posted February 25, 2008 I'm with you RB. I love the outdoors whether I have a fishing rod, bow, rifle, muzzleloader, crossbow, pistol, spear, speargun, shovel, pick, screen or chisel in hand! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 25, 2008 Author Share Posted February 25, 2008 RJB I have a better sand dollar for sale on a buddy's website which came from a dry land excavation 15-18 feet below the surface as opposed to my reworked spoil island finds from last weekend, hence the better condition of the former. It has a light coating of sand cemented to it as testament of its age. If you are interested holler back. Mellita link Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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