:15:00
Just as tough as anything you ever seen.
:15:02
And a big hole in his throat here...
:15:05
where the buzzards and things
had eaten...
:15:08
every bit of him as they could.
They couldn't eat him all.
:15:12
I was a-fishing in there one day...
:15:14
and dropped my bait down there
at that hole...
:15:17
that old mule laying in there,
you know, all puffed up.
:15:21
Dried up on the skeleton.
:15:24
And there was a big warmouth perch
run out him up here and bit my hook.
:15:30
Took it in, that old mule, that quick,
you know?
:15:35
And he got off of there. Got loose.
:15:37
I went to pull the hook out...
:15:39
and I must have hung it
on one of his ribs in there.
:15:42
I had to break it off.
:15:43
But I put on another hook...
:15:46
and dropped it down there
and I caught a big one.
:15:50
The bones had come out of his legs,
the skin was laying there.
:15:55
And it was tough as a bear.
:15:58
I got over,
it was about this deep in the water.
:16:01
I went down and then
got a hold of them legs...
:16:04
and drug that old mule out on the hill.
:16:07
There was 114 warmouth in him,
warmouth perch.
:16:11
I could hear them a-fluttering
just 'cause I run out on the hill with it.
:16:14
The water run out of him.
:16:17
I could hear them a-fluttering in there.
:16:21
It was in planted pines.
:16:24
But he'd roosted in a branch,
the other side of planted pines.
:16:27
I eased into a row of planted pines,
you know.
:16:31
Planted pines.
:16:34
They're not exactly
in a straight row like that.
:16:36
They'll be, you know, offset.
:16:38
So you got a variation
about 2 foot, maybe.
:16:43
And getting in planted pines,
I walked across the rows...
:16:47
crossways to the rows,
till I got right even...
:16:49
with where he was at in the swamp.
:16:51
And I knew. I said, "Right yonder he's at. "
:16:53
I walked crossways to the rows
till I got to that row.
:16:56
I knew he was right at the end of it.
I was working my way in and out.