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Where and how to hunt
Beaches
Creeks/Rivers
Creeks/Rivers
In a nut shell, look for triangle shapes, tide isnt a huge factor but low tides are best. Colors can vary, the key is training the eyes.
Creeks/Rivers
Creeks/Rivers
Creeks/Rivers
You want to look for gravel beds, sand bars ect. A good poker rod like the one in the pic can help find gravel under the sand. Sometimes fossils are near surface but can be a foot or so deep.
Detailed Tips for Hunting
Its all about success
Beach hunting tips and mistakes I see people make. Some beaches are so good you just walk and pick up teeth and other fossils and others are nearly impossible to find. I will use Caspersen Beach in Venice Florida for examples because I hunt there myself. Hunting in the dark. A good flashlight is a no brainer, you dont need sifters or other tools. Its much like hunting in the day time, look in the shell beds or lines. I have noted 3 types of hunters and their mistakes unless you really have trained eyes. First type is the speed walker, they miss a lot of teeth, I often pick up teeth behind them. The second type is the swinger, swinging the light so fast, they miss tons as well and lastly is the way I hunt. Slow walking and intently looking. I get nasty looks at times because my bag is ripe with teeth and others have almost nothing. It is hard work, it can take me 3 hours just to cover 1 mile of beach at times. Take your time and really look, you will be blown away at just how many teeth you can find. As for sifting in the surf, I only use a plastic garden basket from Walmart, It works great and covers the scooping and the sifting in one easy step. Floating sifters are also common and great for most. I see people scoop with a pole sifter, dump the spoils on the beach and look through it. That is hard to do, it gets dry sand all over your spoils, hard to see teeth in that. I often search peoples left over spoils and pull some nice teeth that they missed. The pole scoopers and normal sifters have their place for sure, I own them too, just dont use them much. See the tool section for all the normal hunting tools and their use with pictures of each. If you dont do well at first, keep at it, you will get better.
The do not do
Do not be a bad hunter
This picture is what you dont do when fossil hunting, not only is is illegal but you are destroying a waterway. This is a picture of a seriously dug out bank that has partially collapsed. This particular creek is now off limits to hunters due to the damage done by bad hunters. If you see hunters doing this type of thing, you need to report them right away to your local wildlife officers or local law enforcement. This type of hunting is why fossil hunting is banned in places. Try your best to leave the waterway as you found it, as much as possible.