![]() Well, Claude done lit another big stick a dynamite, handed it to the game warden it goin’ phsssssh! The game warden said, “Boy, that’s against the law, you cain’t do that. Boom! Them big catfish come turnin’ they belly up, whoopin’ it outa that water, and Claude was just gettin’em by the tub full. Let it go down kinda short, then drawed back and chucked it. ![]() The game warden said, “Alright Claude, I’m gonna see how you catchin’ all these fish when cain’t nobody else catch none.”Ĭlaude raised the lid on the boat seat, got a big, long stick a dynamite. Well, the game warden got in the boat with him and they took off out in the middle of the river. Y’all ought to just go with me and watch me. Claude told ’em – popped off – said, y’all don’t know how to do it. So the State Game and Fish Commission of Mississippi decided they’d go fishin’ with Claude, just see how he was catchin’em. Old Claude Ledbetter, he’d come with a pickup truck loaded down. Folks was goin’ and they wasn’t catchin’ nothin’. ![]() I don’t think this is where Jerry Clower was headed with the story, but it fits so well:Ĭlaude was the only one in the community catchin’ any fish.
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