Originally posted by ewest:
Thats because they were over on the Amite , Pearl, Bogue Chitto , Homochitto or the Big Muddy or its many oxbows. 
You forgot the Tchefuncte.
It's good to hear those names again. We used to call the smaller oxbows "borrow pits". Some of the best fishing of my life was in those ponds. You never knew what you would catch next... whatever the Big Muddy left in them. That included gar and bowfin.
