As soon as our packs were clumsily shed, we sank into the seats and emptied the glasses of water on the table
the Buffalo is the last of the choice, free-flowing streams in the Arkansas Ozarks (all others have been dammed) and is now being considered by the National Park Service as the first National River. (To help save this river from being dammed, and it is being eyed by the Army Engineers for that purpose, write to The Ozark Society to Save the Buffalo, Box 38, Fayetteville, Arkansas.) There were four boats in our fleet on this expedition for smallmouth bass, which are called brownies in the Ozarks
Because they all have the same flaw
Slowly drifting a Little Cleo down a stretch of fast-moving water, waiting for a trout to ambush is fun like nothing else is
We either carried our messenger bags slung over a shoulder on one side, or across our body on the opposite shoulder