If there was anyone in our family that could be Daniel Boone, it would my brother, Jerry. He has found very little things that he wouldn't track or try to catch.....Be it Bass Fishing, Deer Hunting, Rabbit hunting or Duck Hunting. I think that would be his favorite. I don't know where he got it, Dad didn't hunt or fish, but if there was anything that made him love it was when he was about 9 years old, we moved to Helena, Arkansas.....Well, about 15 miles south of there to a farm of about 400 acres that bordered a lake that was called "Rab Lake".
It was the spring of 1953 and the rivers and lakes were all overflowing and water was backing up everwhere....the fields were flooded and all the ditches were all backed up and were all full of fish. I talking about Big fish....some weighing as much as 10-20 pounds. In order to catch these fish, you either put on gloves and got in the water to catch with your hands or used a gigg....which was on a long handle and you stabbed them and threw them out of the water. We all use to have so much catching these fish. Rab Lake was about a 20 acre lake and had cypress trees all around the shore and not only was a good fishing lake, but that spring the ducks just covered it up. This was right up Jerry's Alley and this is where he learn to love duck hunting. Also, that spring there was a lot of clean up in the fields and they were covered in wild grass. All this grass had to be burnt or cut off and you never saw so many "Cotton Tail and Swamp Rabbits" in your life. Anytime you rabbit hunted, everyone had a good Rabbit Dog, and Jerry had a dog name Bullet.....after Roy Rogers dog, and this dog would catch as many rabbits as you could shoot. Jerry saved many a shell to use for target practice because of OLD BULLET! Dad had bought a single shot 12 gauge shotgun and Jerry almost worn it out that spring and the six years we lived there. I supposed he still has that old gun.
It was the spring of 1953 and the rivers and lakes were all overflowing and water was backing up everwhere....the fields were flooded and all the ditches were all backed up and were all full of fish. I talking about Big fish....some weighing as much as 10-20 pounds. In order to catch these fish, you either put on gloves and got in the water to catch with your hands or used a gigg....which was on a long handle and you stabbed them and threw them out of the water. We all use to have so much catching these fish. Rab Lake was about a 20 acre lake and had cypress trees all around the shore and not only was a good fishing lake, but that spring the ducks just covered it up. This was right up Jerry's Alley and this is where he learn to love duck hunting. Also, that spring there was a lot of clean up in the fields and they were covered in wild grass. All this grass had to be burnt or cut off and you never saw so many "Cotton Tail and Swamp Rabbits" in your life. Anytime you rabbit hunted, everyone had a good Rabbit Dog, and Jerry had a dog name Bullet.....after Roy Rogers dog, and this dog would catch as many rabbits as you could shoot. Jerry saved many a shell to use for target practice because of OLD BULLET! Dad had bought a single shot 12 gauge shotgun and Jerry almost worn it out that spring and the six years we lived there. I supposed he still has that old gun.
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