TURKEYS AT URICH
Big Creek It's a wonder there's any game in these woods at all bein's it's overrun by the locals during gun season. It's a little wicked wilderness so thick with brush you can't see past thirty yards.. But big deer abound in river bottoms and its hillsides, often coming into the upper fields to feed at night. And flocks of turkey roost in the tall oaks and sycamore trees in the surrounding flood-prone bottoms that more resembles a swamp than a creek. We were after those birds. A few years back in the fall, I guess my husband just wanted to show me around so he motioned me to stay close -- we didn't split up. Alright by me, I didn't want to wander by myself till I knew the area better. Those bottoms are too easy to get lost, gave me the creeps. We hiked down the bare path winding into the creek basin, shotguns in hand, turkey hunting in the swamp during a dry spell. Obviously Ed knew the way, he was surefooted, not slowin