Back to the mud, headed up to Little Muskego lake the day after Thanksgiving with Art Geotz for a little lake bottom scatter dumping.
Little Muskego Lake is just southwest of Milwaukee, it has been drawn down seven feet in an attempt to kill an invasive algae, Starry Stonewort.
The drawn down will remain throughout the winter, freezing the exposed lake bottom killing the algae.
Here's a few pictures of our adventure.
- Algae warning
You may remember this can, same lake.
- Little Muskego can 1979
The lake bottom is very soft and we can't venture out to far from shore without sinking into the mud.
- Piers
Art found this pre pro Milwaukee Brewery bottle under one of these piers.
- first bottle Milwaukee Brewery Co.
- piece of coffee tin
- Brutal
As we were leaving this area Art finds this cool John Graf blob top bottle right along shore. I believe it was for Weise Beer, with the trade mark "THE BEST WHAT GIVES" John Graf made beer and soda.
- Blob top John Graf "The Best What Gives"
we move on to a different location.
- Looking out from ramp #9
- First can, Peter Fox
- Hitch & Post
- Art gets that sinking feeling.....Doh!
- more ground to cover
I found a couple pre pro bottles myself a clear Milwaukee Brewery bottle and a John Graf Co. bottle, not sure if it held beer or soda but it also has the slogan "THE BEST WHAT GIVES" embossed on it. And I also found this Ben Kornburger & Bros. bottle, to bad it's broken.
- Ben Kornburger & Bros Co. Milwaukee Wis.
- snake....Milwaukee Cobra
Arts detecting, he gets a signal and I'm watching to see what he digs up, and then he pulls up this Pabst blob top bottle," Whoa!..., What, have you got a glass setting on your new detector"
- Art detects a bottle
- Sweet Pabst blob top
Funny thing, shortly after Art detects his bottle I get a signal and I dig up another brown Milwaukee Brewery bottle "What Gives" so I check my hole and right next to where the bottle was I find a Miller aluminum can.
- Little Muskego Lake 11/24/17
- metal treasure, some copper, brass, sunglasses, tin and a shingleing hatchet
- best cans
It was a fun day out, though the best can found was the Hamms can pictured, other than that just pieces of steel cans. This lake was even brutal on aluminum. Part of the reason may be because the area exposed for us to dig is the sallow area of the lake, no more than five feet deep when full. The old bottles were fun to find and only an hour from home, we returned two weeks later.
- My three pre-pro bottles and Hatchet head
