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Apr 27, 2021, 5:01 PM

How I got back near Clemson.

Yes I do drink beer and post crap. I need to build some credibility here as football season approaches.
I am an expert spectator.

I always believed that some day I would retire on Wateree as I grew up near and loved it. I know every way to fish including "noodling" where a brother stands on your back so you don't get washed away by the Catawba as you search under rocks for a CatFish.

My Pop grew up on a dirt farm and taught us. He was the best Pop a kid could have. In his day they hunted and fished to put on the table. By the time he was raising me and my siblings, had a job at Springs Mills. He was one hell of a man, got me to Clemson.

Around 1990 was living in a city and longing to get back home.
I began a search for a place I could afford on water.

I would line up, places in the Carolinas and the Bride and I would have a fun weekend looking at them.
Most with water front we could not afford.
I told her as to Clemson.

I was in college when Hartwell was filling up. I fished there when a student, and got drunk on the lake (we would soak cherries in Everclear all week). Only one place in walking distance sold beer.

On a trip to Clemson, nothing was there we could afford.
Leaving one place we could not afford saw a small sign "lots for sale". Down a long dirt road was a place on Lake Hartwell for $27k.
We took out a ten year mortgage on our city house and worked to make it ours. We made payments on the "dream". Ten years later when my work place deemed me too old to do the job, I was able to leave the city and come home.

I worked hard to get back to Clemson and it was worth it.

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Apr 27, 2021, 6:29 PM

Everybody in my Family worked for Springs. We lived in the country between the reservation and Van Wych. Spent many hours in the Catawba only difference was we called it 'Grappling'. Best place ever was Landsford Canal, tons of rocks and not much current. I have seen my cousin come up with one in each hand and one in mouth (by the tail). My kids and grandkids wouldn't stick their hands under a submerged rock for 1000 bux

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Apr 27, 2021, 7:00 PM

I have many Landsford Canal tales. It is a place all should visit. Nearby is still an old time fish camp that has incredible Hushpupies.
When I was about 50 there was a 50k (31 mile) foot race there. I went back to defend Chester and won the race.

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A THIRTY ONE mile foot race? That is what you call being


Apr 27, 2021, 7:10 PM

committed, and you should have been committed, because that is plain INSANE. :)

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Apr 27, 2021, 7:14 PM

Some play 18 holes. Some go bowling. Foot Racing is like that. I took it up after 40 and was OK at it.

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Apr 27, 2021, 7:30 PM [ in reply to A THIRTY ONE mile foot race? That is what you call being ]

I wouldn't stick my hand under a rock under water or run a 31 mile race, although I'm impressed with both feats and have eaten many a catfish caught more conventionally. But I do envy you guys living on the water. It's been over 30 years since I lived in SC and I don't know if we'll ever live there again, but the bride and I do think about it regularly.

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Apr 27, 2021, 7:14 PM

Hunted all over the bottoms of the Catawba. Daddy got me a job as a sweeper in Springs Mills, 2nd shift my junior year in high school, summertime. Kept me from running around with my friends but it made me #### sure I wanted to go to college. I use to date the youngest Close daughter ever so briefly. And I know what you mean about being on the water. We bought a house way up yonder on the chatahoochie a few years ago, on lake Lanier. Am sitting on the back deck right now and it’s too beautiful. Just an hour and a half from God’s country. Go tigers!

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Apr 27, 2021, 7:37 PM

All of us at some point saw the Springs girls as a pot of gold.
Springs was a pot of gold for all in the area.
They are a great example of rising all around them.

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