The Duck River

A traditional, wooden, flat-bottomed boat waits for a fisherman on the Duck River.  This wide, shallow-draft boat is ideal for slow drifting down the river fishing for bass and catfish.  It also works well for stringing trotlines between trees, branches, or stumps in the river (long strands of heavy twine with short lengths of baited lines at intervals.

Swan Creek

In years past, this wide hole of water, the blue hole on Swan, was traversed by a "swinging bridge" that a husband and wife used in "high water" to get out from their farm on the other side of the flooded river to go teach school. When Swan flooded the "low water" bridge was also flooded and they would have been stranded without the swinging bridge.  On hot summer days, young adults and teenagers often used the bridge as a diving platform or as a place to scare others with the bouncing, swaying bridge over deep water.