they would go on a seasonal trip to the top of Hell's Peak and stretch out very large nets between tall poles. From a fish's point of view, an inverted net.
The objective was to net migrating birds skimming over the peak, too tired from their long journey to fly any higher. Mighty tasty stripped naked of feathers and guts then roasted at the end of a stick!
There is a 100-ft waterfall at the base of Hell's Peak. That same water passes about 75 feet from my back door, a quarter mile or more away from the falls. There's only two good ways to drive anywhere near that peak; one way being through my property then through a rancher's property, both borders blocked by security gates. The other way is from the far end of that same road which is perhaps 30-miles from here when accessed from county roads, and it's likely there is at least one gate at that entrance. Road or not, the falls cannot be seen from any road or trail, so only locals know it's there. Well, unless you vehicle of choice has wings and your road is the sky.
I had an elderly sister call me yesterday from Colorado (our home state), just to see how I was doing and chat about the corona virus a bit. She lives in a suburb of Denver, and she seemed interested in coming out for a visit. Thinking about that a day later, I'm preparing to call her and suggest she come out here and stay for however long she wants if that makes her feel more at ease.
If you are interested in following the progress of that disease, check out the map linked below. It's pretty impressive. I just found it a little while ago.
That small pond is seasonal -- dries up and seeps out early in the summer. However it's very productive at producing huge armies of small critters that eventually make their way up the hill to the left by wing or foot where there is a much larger and deeper pond which retains water year round and which has a huge population of good-sized bass. Gotta love it as spring arrives and the frogs and toads commence to croak their mating songs, and red-winged blackbirds sore and dive. All ridding the pond of dragonflies and such. Down dragon, down!
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