Show fish in in branches of trees remarkable sight seen by man from arkansas alter after a break in river embankment tinge of ake pe dis displayed played by listener did you ever see fish hanging from the limbs of trees asked a man from the st francis basin well I 1 have and they didn dian t have wings either they were just simply plain old st francis river catfish and had never learned how to do anything but swim and blubber but I 1 found a bunch of them up in a tree one morning just the same and it was a curious sight of course it Is common enough to find fish in hollow logs hollow trees and stumps after a flood but these mem bers were up in the branches out in the open in plain view where they could be seen it was during a heavy rise in the river back in the early SOs I 1 was living at the time some eighty miles up the river from the mcarth on what is known as cow bayou island in that section of ar kansa so named because of a tearful fearful cattle calamity shortly after the war when the bayou which surrounds the island was literally choked the bodies of cattle opposite where I 1 lived was a sharp curve in the river and a considerable lip with a rather marked decline toward the river rivers s edge the high water had filled this dip trees of a small bushy variety had grown up thickly in the dip dur ing the overflow a vast army of fish had floated into the place evidently to feed one night a short di dis stanco below this place there was a break in ta tte e embankment which threw the full force of the river back into a deep basin a halt half mile away the fall would not have been more rapid if the hot bot torn tom had dropped out of the river really at first I 1 thought there had been a sinking of the land when I 1 ventured out the next morning across the river from where I 1 lived I 1 beheld a remarkable sight the dip had been emptied by the sudden break below hundreds of fish had been caught napp ag ng as it were catfish measuring all the way from a few inches to a toot foot and a half could be seen blouio ing and wriggling in the busby bushy tops and forks of the clumps of trees which had grown up in the dip it was the most remarkable sight I 1 had ever sees seen and I 1 would not have believed it my self it if I 1 had not beheld it with my own eyes I 1 didn dian t see it what do you expect me to doa asked the skeptic who had ordered a highball but the man from arkansas never answered |