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When the Levy Breaks

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Wixom Lake Adventure

Took a trip out to drained Wixom Lake in central Michigan with my buddy Ray during our Indian summer on November 5th and 6th.
It's about a five and a half hour drive for me here in Northeastern Illinois. I google earthed the lake the night before to find a place to park and venture out from. It took us a while but we eventually found a place to park, we got permission from a commercial establishment on the lake. This is a very private lake with practically no public access. We ended up on the Northeastern part of the lake up near the lighthouse and spent most of our two days searching here. It was a lot of fun and great relaxing get away. Here's some pictures from our adventure.

This is where M30 ends, Bridge Out.
Stop The Truck!!
Stop The Truck!!
Out on the lake bottom looking south
Out on the lake bottom looking south
Ray, geared up!  Ray's not a can collector but he likes to metal detect and he travels the country collecting fossils, he built this cart from an old golf bag carrier. A bucket for his finds also holds his shovel and detector, the handle holds two koozie lined beers.
Ray, geared up! Ray's not a can collector but he likes to metal detect and he travels the country collecting fossils, he built this cart from an old golf bag carrier. A bucket for his finds also holds his shovel and detector, the handle holds two koozie lined beers.
my first find, bait caster
my first find, bait caster
cork lined
cork lined
souvenir ashtray from Yellowstone
souvenir ashtray from Yellowstone
Cone Top
Cone Top
This lake is can rich, lots of targets
This lake is can rich, lots of targets
rock'in rust
rock'in rust
Brownweiser
Brownweiser
dunes
dunes
"Big Digs"
"Big Digs"
I think I found a six of these
I think I found a six of these
geese
geese
Frankie
Frankie
Ray on the hunt
Ray on the hunt
sandbar
sandbar
"Jho Belle"
"Jho Belle"
"Jonny"
"Jonny"
Oh Jeepers, which way is the truck
Oh Jeepers, which way is the truck
We drove down to Midland for lodging about 20 min. away.
more pics coming up.............


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Friday morning we headed back to the same spot, I was starting to get into some cans when I ran out of daylight the day before.
I did best in the cracked areas. down near the lighthouse.
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Barnacle Boy
Barnacle Boy
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Blackened Coke
Blackened Coke
Blackened Bud
Blackened Bud
This has potential
This has potential
Propeller, not a can
Propeller, not a can
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Muddy Mountie
Muddy Mountie
I dropped my cans off at the truck and went to go find Ray I thought we might go find another spot. I saw him down by the river and cut through another area with the cracked up ground and the little trees growing when this can surprised me. Yeah! now were digging!! This is my first and only Ohio OI, Whoo hooo!!
Red Band
Red Band
Looks Good
Looks Good
After a rinse in the river.......not to shabby
After a rinse in the river.......not to shabby
of coarse I had to keep searching this area a little longer, but we decided to go find another acccess point. I wanted to ge on to the wide part of the lake. we drove around and talked to a few locals, but they were not much help. We ended up back on M30 and walked the dyke down to the breach in the dam. we poked around there for a while, but I wasn't feeling it. so with just a couple hours of daylight left we went back to the other spot by the lighthouse and finished our time there,
Green heads and Tan
Green heads and Tan
The beer refreshing
The beer refreshing
Black Dog
Black Dog
Nu Grape
Nu Grape
Well here is what I brought home, some cool discoloration. I think this lake is very can rich, lots of targets. Of all the lakes I've dug I think this lake has the potential of being the best. It is big, over 2000 acres, I barley scratch the surface.
The Galvanic effect seems pretty strong in this lake as all the cans have severe seam damage and the tops of all the tabs have completely dissolved.
I never hit that sweet mud with the great condition, though, I bet there's areas out there like that. You Michigan boys need to get out there and check it out, Regal Lager potential. To me it's a lot of fun and you never know what you might find. I'll be Back!!
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Galvanic effect
Galvanic effect
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The Red Band is KILLER !!!!
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I figured you’d eventually hit it
Bantam - when you pop a Regal OI, everyone will want to dig with you and no one will give you crap anymore.... until then, Keep On Truckin" !
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Branch Office?
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idigrust wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:37 pm The Red Band is KILLER !!!!
Thanks Danny,
It's one of those rare occasions when the best can found is also the best condition.
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bantam10 wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:39 pm I figured you’d eventually hit it
Yeah, I couldn't resist with the great weather we had. I'm glad I was able to get out there before winter, with the long Thanksgiving weekend I almost headed back out there yesterday.
These folks have a long battle ($$$) to get there lake back, I think it will be drained for a very long time.
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Rand wrote: Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:34 amBranch Office?
Yeah, the more common Branch Office, Lilek-859
L-859 Waldorf, Red Band OI
L-859 Waldorf, Red Band OI
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Secord Lake to the north has a dam that spills into the Tittabawassee River that forms into Smallwood Lake but continues as the Tittabawassee River into Wixom lake held back by the Edenville Dam which formed the beginning of Sanford Lake. Edenville and Sanford Dams collapsed so the affected property is in the neighborhood of 4,169 acres.

From this story in the Detroit News: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opini ... 244236001/
Built in 1924, Edenville Dam is made up of an earthen embankment, concrete spillways, and a hydroelectric generation facility that supplied electricity to Consumers Energy until 2018. Behind the dam was a 2,600-acre reservoir called Wixom Lake. A few miles south, Sanford Dam formed the 1,569-acre Sanford Lake.


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That's great Info. Ed, Thanks
There you go, over 4000 acres, how much area can a person cover in a day?...one acre....two?

This would make a great group dig. I know there's at least one campground on the lake, Smiths Landing I think?
Get a bunch of RBers to fill the campground for a long weekend.( I would think they would be hungry for the business) In the morning everyone heads out on the lake detecting, we head back to camp in the evening and show what we found, cook up some food, a few cold ones, campfire sing along..... sounds like a blast to me.

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That Waldorf is in great shape, all things considered! I'm not familiar with the can so I looked it up.

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Glad you got rewarded with all your hard work Rusty. Cleaned up sweet that Waldorf. Love all the pics. An iron chair? You never know whAt you’ll find.
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Thanks Dwight, It's great to put a shinny can on the shelf! .....and you can't beat a good rocking chair, I tried talking Ray into keeping it. He could have restored it to It's original glory.
Love the floral pattern.....looks like the runners were replaced on this one.
Love the floral pattern.....looks like the runners were replaced on this one.
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Looking good Rusty. Being a fisherman I can't help to wonder how many snags that rocking chair is responsible for. tom
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Should you do a return group outing, I would be interested. I live less than 90 minutes from there. I actually drove through that area Memorial Day weekend with the intent of exploring the lake bottom. After witnessing the devastation in the area and seeing all the people still cleaning up their messes, I decided it was too soon.
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Awesome Rusty! Great photos and story as usual.

I would love to get in on that group outing you speak of. Please keep me in the loop if it comes together.

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Keep me updated on the outing as well please if one happens
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What a great story. Only about 45 minutes from my house, I wish you would have let me know. I guess there is no more to the story to add to the Rustlings by the look of your content here.
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@Rusty Jonesin
Just came across this using a Google search:
Wixom Lake-area residents again urged to stay off exposed bottomland

Here's a link: https://www.abc12.com/2021/04/21/wixom- ... ottomland/


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Might put a damper on any future plans?

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