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Gregory Dupre

Gregory Dupre
Fisherman
Bayou Pigeon, La.


The text on this page is the transcript of an oral interview. The interview has been edited and transcribed by the interviewer.

Bayou Pigeon and the Atchafalaya Basin (Page 1 of 7)
Channel
A Channel in the Atchafalaya


Well there's a, right at daylight you can hear bull frogs at times, but there is another little rain frog, we call them "graynuie," but you hear them just echoing around in the woods, and you'll here the birds, you'll hear owls hooting around, the grobek, which is bird out of Mexico, that flies up here in March until about August or September. You maybe lucky and catch a squirrel barking or something, now and then. I have seen alligators in the woods.

Bird
Watercolor by Gail Miller
Baton Rouge, La.

When I'd empty my trap and had bait in it from the run before, the day before, I would save it and when I got to a big cypress slab in the woods I take and throw all that bait on there, cause I knew they had a couple of alligators around, next day when I'd get back it would be all gone. But there is all kinds of wildlife. You see mink running, nutria all over the place. This year we had a very nasty pest was the yellow guinea wasp, they were all over, the red wasp. You don't want to hear or see them.


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