I fish a river with trees still standing down in it, probably 20' tall, look like toothpicks sticking up on fish finder. From 1940's. Can't imagine the lures down there. Thinking about getting a 12v underwater tether camera & display to peek at it.
LOL.
There are companies that raise logs from the bottom of Lake Superior. And, they are piled up down there like toothpicks, in vast quantities. The bottom is apparently anerobic, so the logs do not rot. The quality of the wood is so good, though, they fetch 1/4 million+ a log for the finest straight grain spruce.
Interesting.
I remember reading of companies who mined submerged logs from swamps years ago. The quality of the wood was still good after all these years.
http://www.dennistwpmuseum.org/pdfdoc/cedarmining.pdf
A fine tree, the spruce.
The fresh water microbes don’t eat the wood like salt water microbes and other marine fauna.
Wooden ships and logs survive for a very long time in fresh waters.
Here in FL we have loggers that pull up virgin timber logs out of the rivers and creeks that were cut down over a hundred years ago. Very lucrative business. Regulated and licensed by the state, of course...............but as with anything of value there are ‘poachers’................
I fish a river with trees still standing down in it, probably 20' tall, look like toothpicks sticking up on fish finder. From 1940's. Can't imagine the lures down there. Thinking about getting a 12v underwater tether camera & display to peek at it.