[Today’s run: 6 miles]
Thomas and I went fishing this afternoon. We went over to Columbus Lake today, just to be different. We don’t usually have a lot of success over there, but we enjoy it anyway. We put in at the Waverly boat dock and then rowed across the Tombigbee channel to an old river curve.
Columbus Lake s is pretty much everything north of Columbus associated with the Tombigbee River. It consists of the stuff immediately behind (north of) the Stennis Lock and Dam and various curves and inlets, all the way up to north of the US-50 bridge. They may call it that all the way up to Amory.
We don’t have a motor for our boat, mostly because I am too cheap to get one and getting one would require getting a license for the boat and I don’t want to do that either. So I row while Thomas trolls. And then I find a good spot and throw in the concrete-filled-paint-can anchor and we fish that spot for awhile.
Today we saw some very large white birds, with long legs and long necks. And we heard an owl. We saw a deer swim across a short channel of water, probably 6 feet deep.
We also rowed back along the channel for a quarter of a mile or so. We noticed a lot of old ropes and cables along the bank, tied to trees and just disappearing into the woods. It looked like old barge parking. I wonder why they didn’t take their ropes when they left?