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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart

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  • - 3 - I had a hard time getting through some spots and was alone the greater part of the time as we did not fish near each other. Providence must have been with me. There was no limit in those days on the number of fish one could catch. We did throw back any very small fish. I understand that now that the maximum catch in a day is five and that no fish less than seven inches long may be retained. It was a long time ago that we fished in Deep Creek. I understand that fishing at certain seasons is still allowed there. We never saw any rattlers in or near the streams but Mack Thomas killed three while we were on that trip. . . on the trails near our camp. We saw several copperheads one day while on a hike up to what was called the "Poke Patch" - some miles above the Bryson Place. Such a dense and wild spot, dark, a very entrancing one. A good many snakes up there but we never seemed to think much about them. We did see a few, and Mack Thomas killed one copperhead. There were some such very dense thickets of "Dog Hobble" (Leucothoe,) sometimes called Poison Hemlock, near the "Poke Patch", hard to get through especially with a fishing rod along. The men had their guns, pistols along, just in case a rattier or a copperhead might be on the trail - nice old trails and many lovely wild flowers up there and a great variety of trees and shrubs. We got into some virgin timber one day on a long hike. Some times we would walk tea miles in a day. Ail of us were good walkers. Walking is not tiresome on a cool and dark trail in the Smokies. I think one gets a sort of second wind.
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