The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26
rIsCATOKIAL pEnEGRIxArIoNs.
AIOng the Banks of Buffalo in Hum
phrcys COunty.


BANKS OF BUFFALO, HUMPHREYs Co.
| Nov. Is, 1S7J.-Wc travelled nearly one hun.
dTed miles through the country to reach
this place. Stopping over night at farm
| houses and getting an early start i'm the
! morning, would travel ten or twelve miles
and halt on the bank of some beautiful
| stream when our porter would cook uS q
| nice breakfast or dinner of fish and game
/ captured route.
| We were not without good music either
| We had several instruments, including
BenSons guitar, and banjo. Benson has q
fine brass call bugle, which can he heard
over five miles, and when on top Of the
highest hills, the sweet musical echo return
ing from the fair distant valleys makes de-
lightful sounds over the mOnOtOnous still
ness OF the deep water. Arriving at the
neadwaters OF Hurricane creek, we drove
down that beautiful cfear stream to the eX-
tensive mills by that name at present own
ed by Capt VIM. G.. Ewin, late Clerk of our
Davidson county Count. who gave us a hear
ty welcome, with all the comforts man
could wish for. The stream here is clear
game fish. Leaving Hurricane Minis, we
Travelled west, crossing Duck river to this
place, where we have good quarters and
splendid fishing and hunting.
Buffalo river rises in Lawrence and pass
es through Perry, Lewis and Humphreys
counties, and is the largest tributary of
Duck river; is aDout fifty 10 sixty feet WIDE
bold, rapid, clear and deep. IL winds its
crooked way around the huge cliffs and
bluffs which line its banks, and through
the fiat bottoms like "a silver thread I'm a
carpet of moss, while its clear, laughing
waters, full of the best game fish in the land
make IT the most fascinating stream for the
Tennessee angler. Salmon or "Jacl" fish is
the master game fish Of this stream. We
often catch them twenty pounds in weight,
but IT requires skillful anger to land one
of that size; they are swift travellers when
first hooked, and make your reel sing like
n spinning wheel. You must know their
habits, when and where they feed. They
are wild as a buck and as tiInid as fawn.
They watch every movement YOU make
on the bank (the water being so very clear
and to s.rfY.T .N-H.
must use great caution. We use Mecks
patent reels, Nos. 2 land 3, best English and
silk lines, 100 yards long, Carlisle hooks, 3,
double gut snOods, light Japanese rods,
with guides and tips, bait with live steel
back minnow, five or six inches long use
no float. 1ave just landed very large
cast my line full twenty-five yards, when
the bait was taken greedily by the hungry
FISH and run full twenty-five yards from
me into deeper water before ] NghtCtiod on
him. When he felt that hc was hooked lac
bent my rod in the shape of halfmOon in
his endeavors to break my line, but / had
a steady hand, and allowed him 10 pull
gradually until seventy-five yards of my
line was off my reel, when / began to wind
return TO deep water before / exhausted his
strength and forced him 10 yield, which he
finally did in a most graceful manner.
("Steady, brother, steady''l. Don't you think
friends Horsley and Miller, of Columbia, and
Furman, Hillman, McNairy, Barnes, Vain,
DIR. FALL Love, Irby Morgan and other no.
ted anglers of Nashville would have enjoy
ed the scene hugely. keep your seat gem
tlemcn, only touch my hat 10 you. No
ostentatiOn, am used 10 such sport, and
some of these days may let you go with me
fishing, and show you how 10 catch 'em. /
have a large lot to send to the depot, 10 be
expressed to my friends i'm Nashville, and
you shall have a nice one. The fresh water
Salmon is gem TO look upon, when first
taken from his native element and living
painting on the gravelly bank before you,
and is sweet mOrscl for a hungry man.
when your cook has performed her last
offices and placed him brOiling hot before
you. Benson is equally as successful rs l.
and is sitting close by watching his reels
with intent interest, and singing his favor
lite from Hiawatha lback part OF the book
"POOr lone Indian sat on rock
One hand on his rifle" etc.
The most numerous game fish ia this
stream in the black bass or trout las they
are called.) There is almost as much sport
in angling them as the Jack: we catch them
five to eight pounds in weight. This would
be good place for our friend, the one arm
ed Wilson county Judge, to get another
premium line. He need not bring his gun
to shoot them either. Hack perch, silver
perch and other excellent pan fish are also
abundant. our quarters are about one hun
dred yards from the river. We rise az day
break,
When morning opens her cheerful eye
And smiles so sweet and free.
A short ride in canoes places rs az any de-
sired favorite bank, where we hsh until
breakfast, At o, After this we fish or hunt
exercise or rest, read or write, as our dispo-
sitiOnS incline uS-lunch on the banks and
dine at D after which we entertain our WISH
tors with music, telling jokes or drawing up
plans for the mOrrOws sport. We have
splendid cook, James Philips lcoloredl and
his wife Mary. They know how to prepare
game and fish. 1t would make q sick man
wei ana lean man fat 20 look upon our
well-filled rustic table. Fish Of all kinds
and cooked as desired, venisuH, wild ,4lcix
squirrels cartridges 'pussum, ect., with plen-
ty of vegetables, ash cake ana butteF-milk
"Fete chdmpetre" cooked n m Aunt Mary
please excuse my French, do not speak IL
t1uently.)
Truly, etc, GEO. +. AKERs.