Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-07-04

not last long enough to raise the
stream to any extent. and we
found them in pretty good shape,
and getting an early breakfast
were soon or our way again.
The day was showery, the sun
shining between showers, and
as most of us had to walk, on
account of the road, your scribe
went ahead, and looked for
snakes copperheads being the
kind wanted, and we killed
seven that day-all small, 16 or
Is inches in length, and | killed
a venamous looking water-snake
of the moccasin variety, that |
thought some fellow had cut
about four inches of its tail off
with a rock, it was so very
blunt, but afterwards found out
that..all that species had blunt
tails.like that one, and | never
saw one of that kind anywhere
but in the waters of the various
forks of the Sandy.
We passed old Peeryville,
where Uncle Henry Peery was
living near, and further on pass
ed the house we had heard of,
where a big rock had slipped
from its resting place, and rolled
down the steep hillside, struck
one door, went out at the one on
the other side, and half way
from the house to the road be-
fore it stopped. There was on
one living in the house when we
passed, and the rock looked to
us to be too large to have gone
through the doors as it was q
large round one and do not
remember whether there was
any one living in the house al
the time or not. We passed
Uncle Nose Cartright's, above
where WEIGH now is, and drove
on to the mouth of Browns
Greek where Welch is, crossed
} the Tug and camped in the little
flat at the mouth of the creek,
Our mlnnows had kept pretty
well as we were very careful tC
attend to them and early neXt
morning, Wednesday, we rigget
up our poles and started down
the river to try our luck, ant
we did not have far to go, fol-
J just below Welch about a quar-
} ter or half mile is. the ther
: famous Maud" hole, a long
> deep hole. and at the lower enc
on the opposite side was a cliff
, of rocks down to the waters
' edge, and the water was so deer
it looked a bottle-green and ar
J ideal place to fish at as one oul
! side the shore was sandy, and {
l nice place to land a big fish. We
\ fished mostly there all day, anC
I caught quite a nice lot of bass,
E Black Perch" as they were
! called then, and no end of big
1 red eyes, which we ate, and al
4 so the the smaller perch.
e A young fellow Joined us that
! evening and he said there were
j both pike and salmon in the
e Maud hole. So Thursday we sci
D out with hopes of catching one
or the other, and our friend wa.
+ on hand early to go along, as ht
e seemed much interested. WE
hshed there and further OF
: down, but c;iught nothing but
bass and red eyes, as we had g
good lot of them, we started back
= early in the evening to clean
them, and try and renew our sup
ply of minnows, from Browns
+ Creek, as they had been dying
fast-the water being to warm
: for them. On our return, about
,, $50 yards below the Maud hole,
we heard a splashing of water
in the shallow rifles, and on
running ahead to see what was
the cause, we found fine pike
out in the shallow RIFLES catch
, ing the smaller fish. We were
all excited, for he looked as long
as half fence rail; we ran into
the water, and tried to head
him off and keep him from get
ting into a small but very deep
hole just above; if we could
keep him out, kill him, in the
shadows, with sticks and rocks
but the way that fish out general
led us and scotted Inv woc q e;rl,+
to see. We concluded he would
stay there that night and we
would try him early in the morn
ing. We had brought minnow
net along, and managed to get
more bait-by hard work, and
among the lot was a spotted
sucker, Hog Molly, about 8
or 9 in. long, which Harry Estill
said he was going to use to
catch the salmon in the Maud
hole. Next morning we woke