This has nothing to do with fishing but should be of interest.  Recently Eustace IV had George Phillips, a paleontologist, to come to the Burrus House to identify the fossils people have been finding on the sandbars in the river.  I  took some photos and was told what most are. Remember you can click on the photos to make them larger.

These are buffalo teeth

Various horse teeth

Top is a stag moose jawbone and bottom is a ground sloth jawbone

This is three oyster shells embedded in a rock .One on each side and one on the bottom. He said they were 150 million years old.

These are buffalo vertebrae.  The left one is closest to the head. The right one is the next.

Various vertebrae

A buffalo horn that I thought was a tusk

A tusk that I have been thinking was a horn of some sort.

Three mammoth teeth, or parts thereof. You can see the enamel on the left two.

Not mine.  A mammoth jawbone with a tooth in it. It was on a table full of fossilized bones.

A couple of Eustace’s large tusks.

Someones mastodon tooth.

All of my things were found in previous years but people have been finding a lot this year due to the big flood in 2011. It washed down a lot of good fossils. Most of the things there were from 10 to 15,000 years old. There was a whale bone and the oyster shells that were much older. Interesting stuff.