you can actually still buy modern day cane poles for fishing. I guess like a nostalgia thing they sell in some outdoor stores. Something I look forward to doing with my grandkids once they are old enough and can explain the old school way fish were caught, versus modern day rod and reel. I am Blessed to have my grandfathers original cane pole he used as a kid and young man. I believe it is 1930's 40's era.
RE Lee to Pickett - "Hold Five Forks at ALL hazards"……… (Pickett smelling fish frying from Fitz Lee's HQs camp)……. meh
thats certainly one way of doing it! This time of year is when the seasonal shad run starts in earnest in the Virginia rivers and tributaries. Have heard older fisherman refer to them as the "poorman's tarpon"
Snipe. That's the only time the hunting is good.
I came poke fish where I'm at. People here think I have some kind brain damage I think.
I think Pickett didn't care that much. He could read the writing on the breastworks by that point.RE Lee to Pickett - "Hold Five Forks at ALL hazards"……… (Pickett smelling fish frying from Fitz Lee's HQs camp)……. meh
then AP Hill killed the following day after union troops had broken thru. Grant's forces were bearing down like a juggernaut. But it's crazy to think about Pickett being so lackadaisical at such a crucial time, requiring his attention to detail and oversight of his front. I know this was the straw that broke the camels back with RE Lee and Pickett. But always wondered just how steaming mad it made Lee inside to know Five Forks was over run when his nephew and Pickett were screwing around at a fish fry social. Especially while a majority of their army at the front was starving as well.
I think the Shad bake has to be at the pinnacle of fish tales (or tails)??? of the civil war. I dont fault Pickett. A man had to take a break from days of shear bordom, and minutes of shear terror. They didnt have radios, or cell phones or even faxes!!! I dont fault Pickett for going to the bake
I really don't think Pickett was himself again after July 3rd.
I made a fishing pole out of a stick once. It worked just as well as my rod and reel. Not a fish swam away hungry and I didn't have to get my hands wet pulling a fish off a hook. Yep, worked just as well as my rod and reel.
I guess you could say...he came to grief that day.
Believe it or not that was his real name. Grief Lamkin was transferred to the 5th Virginia Cavalry in August 1864 and survived the war to become a lawyer.
You are indeed blessed to have your grandfather's old cane pole. As a kid I fished solely with cane poles until in my twenties.
I'm not sure about that but the biographical information I used came from James Robertson's 18th Virginia Infantry which is part of the Virginia Regimental Series. I just did a quick lookup and there is a Wiki history that has the 5th Virginia Cavalry as a active regiment until the end of the war.
That's the 5th VA Provisional Cavalry -- the one @nc native's talking about is the 5th VA (Volunteer-ish) Cavalry
That's pretty much all we used growing up; and as they say down here "we caught a mess of fish."
Bringing the