Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-01
FISHING In ARKANSAS
Fl. p Williams Writes a Breezy
Letter on the Subject.
II \ Ian Puts His Foot in the Water His
Toes Are In Danger From
Fish.
Correspondence Leaf-Chronicle.l


Mississippi county, Arkansas, for
Clea Lake last week to spend three
or fur days fishing and hunting.
We had two wagons and one buggy,
carrying guns, fishing traps and
cool ing utensils, also tent. There
wer, seven of us, besides three SER
vans TO cook and do camp work.
Gear Lake Is some twelve miles
back from the river and is an ideal
spo, where we could kill small game
and catch all the game flsh that
reaf enable man could desire. The
driye out is through heavy forest Of
ash, cottonwood, cypress, oak and
scaly bark hickory, untouched by the
axe, and 10 the home of wild tur-
keys and squirrels without plumber.
The boys kept sharp lookout fox
game and we came into camp with
sosie twenty-five or thirty nice. ist
squirrels ready to be cooked for sup
pei.
We had written TO have canoes at
thtl camping ground, and found three
gold ones had been brought In the
ev.ning after the tent had been hxed
and camp equipaee oil arranged,
| got my fishing rig ready, and taking
u .ine split bamboo pole with silk
Iii Q and revolving spoon, started out
with man to paddle for me.
.uld see trout jumping aft,r min
nciws, and hardly a moment inter-
vsned that we conld moi hear the
,plash Of sume big itiIow ieedinQ
,,ound the edges oi he hS..
My first exprrietce WAS win
Tree pound black hsss, iuil ot game
aid jumping eighteen Inches rom
lie water when l was playing him
Tim down. In ten ninutes after l
nung and captured one Of the finesi
nass that l ever caught. The buys
-'aid he weighed Fix pounus, l only
snow h. had n mouth that | cuuld
r'ut my whole hand IN. He fought
s,ciously and when We attempted
| citing him up to the canoe would ~
/ times make the water boil in his
efforts TO escape.
When we returned to camp ihut
evening had seven black bass that
were all above average sig, aud very
heavy on string. Another one Of our
party caught five thas weighed
twenty pounds. The third canoe re-
-urned with string OF spe' killed.
per,h, some twenty odd.
The next day aud part OF the day
after, we caught splendid strings
Of black bass, pike and speckled
perch, having all that the campers
and the neighborhood could use, sea
even to throw away.
The boys killed ninety squirrels
while camping, so that we lived
without stint. We brought In to the
river some fine strings OF fish and
bunches of game.
[ While In Arkansas heard the fol-
lowing fish stories from reliable par
ties:
Some fifteen or twenty days ago q
couple were fishing with u trotline,
opposite Fulton on Mississippi rivfr,
and an alligator gar was captured
that measured seven feet tbrse inches
la length. The fish knocked one Of
the men out Of the canoe into the
water. Finally they had to shoot
him, owing to his violent struggles
to escape.
The other story wss to illustrate
the abundance OF fsI, life ON the
lakes and bayous back VI the Missls
-ippi river. In the spring, curing
The overflow, ali kioJs f fish pes
from the Mississippi "a tn" lakes 10
find spawning er',un :. ard iu the
lall they epdeavor 20 g't back Hgsln
to the Mississippi ~ the i-krs and
bayous that Drain into the St. Fran
els river. My informed says that y
continuous stream %, trcUt aud other
fish are pushing their way through
the bayou Called Little river) lead
ing from Big Like 10 Gar Lake.
and thence from there TO Languille
ard from there to ST. Francis river.
He says that friend of his and him
self were there aboutcthe fist of o.
tot,er Last year and were fishing In
Little river, which WIS about two
fect deep and running fast. Now
comes the wonderful part OF this
story. The Ash (mostiT ,ruut) were
so thick that when he threw his
trowl FIVE or six trout would jump nt
the spoon at the same time, and after
catching rs many az they wished
they stopped from sheer weakness Of
the arm. He says that his friend sat
on a log to bathe his teet, and That
the fish bit his toes ~ baaly that he
had to move away. Heroiitus says.
"Things which i saw will vouch
for" did not see this, hut believe
Il. HENRY r. WILLIAM.
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