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Dr. E. W. Branyon’s Bio
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Moccasins and other snakes would get in the little baskets and we’d drown them by pushing them completely under water. Once a snake swallowed a frog and the frog slowly moved down the snake’s body. Weird.
The problem with basket and tree fishing is that someone might steal the fish while you were gone. You had a lost percentage there. Same with a boat that Daddy eventually bought for $5 and left at the Buttahatchee. I tried to camouflage it, but someone would steal it and I’d have to go find it up the river.
A preacher asked a half-wit what he was fishing for. “Don’t know boss. Dey calls `em Baptist Fish.”
“Why do they call them that?” asked the Preacher.
“Don’t know unless it’s cause dey spoil so quick after dey get out of de water.”
Except for the mornings, Daddy was unemployed in the summer, so our family would take frequent outings, including driving to fish on the Tennessee River, sixty miles away. We’d catch crappie and small mouth bass on worms, big cats on minnows, and have to
