Larry Dablemont

If there's plenty of water, they move up the tributaries and streams at the slightest warming of the currents that call them.

My grandfather, who always lived out in the woods or on the creek somewhere, sawed the top out of medium-sized trees up about twenty feet from the ground, to create a flat landing place for the great horned owl, and then would set a steel trap there, and bait it with a wood rat or small squirrel.

On upper sections, nearly three quarters of the river, there are shoals so shallow canoes can’t pass through or over without dragging.