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YEAR-ROUND FISHERMAN — Mrs. John (Margie Dwyer) J«*s Gauley Bridge spends so much time on the river fishing and “just living*’ that many of her friends call her “The River Rat’*. Here she prepares to head homeward, this time without fish but with a tub* ful of dried weed and other plant seed-pods which she will make into dried arrangements. She says her only regret about fishing on the river is that she couldn't find anyone to take a picture of her 17-pound catfish, caught recently.knows St. Albans residents. Sg*J Ernie Bwyer of the police de-( partment and Earl of the water-company.And what does her husband! John think of her fishing all day out On the river by herself? j “What can he think?” she said.JROVING THE VALLEYFayette Woman Enjoys Solitary Fishing TripscT was home all day by myself. !cowith the children all grown and!gone, and there was nothing for1;iabAdme to do, so 1 simply got wit of: the house and am doing things! (I like to do. Look at that bunch fr |of weeds. I’ll spend hours and. * hours tonight and other nights,j and days too. fixing those things! ) into decorations. ] ^He doesn't mind too much ex«[thlt; cept the painting. So I’U save thatBy ADRLAN CWI.N Of The Daily Mail Staffland sets trotlines and has a woo*Idorful time-all by herself.Those weeds interested us. Dried The lone woman fisherman was|nwwr arrangements. she ex-things like that. Sure. I bait myhooded against the river's damp.! plained. You take an tnnful of She wore a heavy sweat shirt those dried weed pods and y*iand dungaree trousers.When the two men approached,can make all sorts at interesting things from them. She paints some of them with a spray-paint can,she was standing on a great lfim together with others expanse of rock that, juts into New {and makes pictures'* of things.own hooks. The only things I won't put on a hook are belgramiles and slimy old worms. I can‘t think of either. But anything ebe. okay!Born Margie Bowyer in the Upper Kanawha Valley, Mrs. Jones is a sister to two widelyfor the week he goes hunting.** And the River Rat picked up her big bucket of bouquet weeds, stowed it in her boat, twisted the handles on her outboard motor and headed home, this time without fish, but with a boatload of potential dried ‘‘flower” arrangements riding in the bow of the little craft.FibeR i v e r just above Gauley Bridge, a 11 d she wasn’t really fishing.She w a s carrying an armload o f dried and brown weed stems, with clusters of vari - shajicd seed penis on weeds.GWINthe heads of theI had been sickly and the doctor told me to get out of the house more, to get into the open air. I’ve always lived near the river and decided that a small boat and fishing would do it tor me. It did. I'm so rarely home now that the neighbors have gotten to calling me ‘The River Rat',*’ and she laughed again, at the thought.Fish? She catches them in plenty. Fact is, not very long ago she caught a 17-pound catfish on her trot line.Eat them? f NEVER eat fish!I don't like them!” she said. i Well, what does she do with them? Why. give them to my neighbors, of course.Some of them hold off fixingLater she admitted with a laugh that she said to herself, Here comes a couple of those fresh guys trying to start something.”We only wanted information about that carving on the rock, supper when they know I m eom-thc picture of the sailor we wrotelmg in, just in the hopes I ve nan about last Monday, and Mrs. John a good day and they can have Jones readily pointed it out to fish for supper! she said.One Sunday she ran her trot lines and pulled in a haul of 27us. She was standing on it. HAS GOOD TIMEALL BY HERSELFAnd then we visited a while with her, while the kids whooped and romped around on the big rocks, dabbled in the water and soaked Uieir feet in the raitt-puddlcs which contained tadpoles.Margie Jones often fishes from the rocks there below the old Gauley bridge. She scoots around the river in her small motorboatedible fish, she said. That time I had a ball giving away fish I she said, Everybody bad a mess of fresh fish.”HELGRAMITES, WORMS ARE ON BLACKLISTShe fishes any way there is to fish. I polcfish sometimes, and then I cast with the casting and fly rods and I trap my bait, crawfish and minnows and lizards andii rnl A lifta w riTrnTmi iir i
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Dec 07, 1961
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