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Sports	The Prater's Creek Gazette 8th Issue Winter 2005 Page #8
As Compiled by Sports Editor Bubba McCalister and his brother Dorris Chasing The Rabbit Sometimes, there ain’t nothin’ better to me and my brother Dorris than following our pack of beagles as they are hot on the trail of a rabbit. Like Bill Monroe often said, them beagles start sounding like they are singing when they are barking and chasing after a little cottontail. A hunter develops a special relationship with his dogs. Each hound has it’s own personality. You get to know each one of ‘em as an individual. Monroe said he could pick out each dog’s individual bark as they ran through the woods. Them dogs is more than just our hounds, they are our buddies. Why, just the other day, Dorris was saying that’s it’s like he’s got ten other brothers besides me. They ain’t much better on earth than to hear them hounds running a rabbit out of the brush so that me and Dorris and can shoot that little critter. Some of my fondest memories of my grandpa are the times he took me and Dorris rabbit hunting. We started going when we were nine years old. He and dad also learned us how to train the beagles. And the rabbit is a respectable quarry too. They is smart. By the end of rabbit season they get smarter, learning tricks to elude the dogs. They’ll back track a piece in a U-turn, then, they’ll jump off the trail and just laugh as the hounds go barreling by, all confused. Mmmmm! Rabbit is good eatin’ too! They is my favorite wild game. Below is my grandma’s recipe for fried rabbit. You’ll need a couple of rabbits, one cup of flour, and two cups of cooking oil. Cut them rabbits into pieces and boil ‘em in salty water for an hour. Then drain them on paper towels. Roll ‘em in the flour and fry ‘em up in a good cast iron skillet. By that time your biscuits ought to be ready, and it’s suppertime!! Prater’s Creek Women’s Field Hockey Readies for Inaugural Season Starting in April, Prater’s Creek High School will have the first women’s field hockey team in Pickens County School District history. Prater’s High principal JC Cluggins had the idea when he was at a principal’s conference up in Maryland. “One afternoon I was walking around the campus where the conference was held” Cluggins explained, “and I saw these girls playing the game. I thought they looked so nice in their starched white blouses and little pleated skirts, and knee socks. I thought ‘Our girls would look mighty fetching in those outfits.’” Cluggins said the first practice is already a sellout. “I thought the women of the community would be excited” Cluggins said, “but it’s the men folk who can’t wait!” Great News for Area Trout Fishers Y’all know that the trout fishing around here gets mighty poor, especially in the summertime when the area streams’ water temperatures get so high. Well, some scientists have come up with a great idea over in Rocky Bottom at Reedy Cove Creek. The waters of Lake Chilly Water feed the Creek, but, during the summer months, the lake’s water temps are anything but "chilly". The water temps get way over 70 degrees and most trout can only survive in water below 70 degrees. So the State Department of Transportation is gonna funnel the cool water in a pipe before it hits the warm lake and send it under the lake to the creek below. This will not only raise the trout population but will also help bring back other species of fish and plant life as well.

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Sports

The Prater's Creek Gazette

8th Issue Winter 2005 Page #8

As Compiled by Sports Editor Bubba McCalister and his brother Dorris

Chasing The Rabbit

Sometimes, there ain’t nothin’ better to me and my brother Dorris than following our pack of beagles as they are hot on the trail of a rabbit. Like Bill Monroe often said, them beagles start sounding like they are singing when they are barking and chasing after a little cottontail. A hunter develops a special relationship with his dogs. Each hound has it’s own personality. You get to know each one of ‘em as an individual. Monroe said he could pick out each dog’s individual bark as they ran through the woods. Them dogs is more than just our hounds, they are our buddies. Why, just the other day, Dorris was saying that’s it’s like he’s got ten other brothers besides me.

They ain’t much better on earth than to hear them hounds running a rabbit out of the brush so that me and Dorris and can shoot that little critter. Some of my fondest memories of my grandpa are the times he took me and Dorris rabbit hunting. We started going when we were nine years old. He and dad also learned us how to train the beagles.

And the rabbit is a respectable quarry too. They is smart. By the end of rabbit season they get smarter, learning tricks to elude the dogs. They’ll back track a piece in a U-turn, then, they’ll jump off the trail and just laugh as the hounds go barreling by, all confused.

Mmmmm! Rabbit is good eatin’ too! They is my favorite wild game. Below is my grandma’s recipe for fried rabbit.

You’ll need a couple of rabbits, one cup of flour, and two cups of cooking oil.

Cut them rabbits into pieces and boil ‘em in salty water for an hour. Then drain them on paper towels. Roll ‘em in the flour and fry ‘em up in a good cast iron skillet. By that time your biscuits ought to be ready, and it’s suppertime!!

Prater’s Creek Women’s Field Hockey

Readies for Inaugural Season

Starting in April, Prater’s Creek High School will have the first women’s field hockey team in Pickens County School District history. Prater’s High principal JC Cluggins had the idea when he was at a principal’s conference up in Maryland. “One afternoon I was walking around the campus where the conference was held” Cluggins explained, “and I saw these girls playing the game. I thought they looked so nice in their starched white blouses and little pleated skirts, and knee socks. I thought ‘Our girls would look mighty fetching in those outfits.’” Cluggins said the first practice is already a sellout. “I thought the women of the community would be excited” Cluggins said, “but it’s the men folk who can’t wait!”

Great News for Area Trout Fishers

Y’all know that the trout fishing around here gets mighty poor, especially in the summertime when the area streams’ water temperatures get so high. Well, some scientists have come up with a great idea over in Rocky Bottom at Reedy Cove Creek. The waters of Lake Chilly Water feed the Creek, but, during the summer months, the lake’s water temps are anything but "chilly". The water temps get way over 70 degrees and most trout can only survive in water below 70 degrees.

So the State Department of Transportation is gonna funnel the cool water in a pipe before it hits the warm lake and send it under the lake to the creek below. This will not only raise the trout population but will also help bring back other species of fish and plant life as well.