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      • Discovery Of Ole Man River
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      • Droughts of the 80s
      • Morning at Bordeaux Point RV Park
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The Cutoff, In The Beginning

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Written by

  • Tait Seldon
  • October 9, 2021
The Cutoff, in the beginning. The southern-most fish camp was H & R camp, south of Nel-Win.  A man named Henry Lee ran H&R and they had a rail and tram, no dock.  They would put their boats on, loaded with gear and motor, and launch it into the water ready to fish.  The camps all had restaurants with cold beer and the kitchens would always cook what you caught that day.
The Cutoff folks all named the camps for areas around Memphis.  H&R Camp was called Millington, Sparkies camp was Frazier, Bordeaux became Bartlett, and Nel-Win was Germantown – because they owned their property and were a little better than us renters.

 

The great thing ’bout the camps at the cutoff though was that there really was no status.  We all got along.  Bankers were no better than cooks.  At the local bar, nobody cared who you were, we all drank, fished and loved a good fish fry.
The Cutoff In The Beginning
On old photo of the Cutoff, before the Big Flood.

 

The town never recognized the Cutoff as a place that you would hang out at, or some place to be proud of.  Well I did I love it, and the people that lived at Bordeaux and other camps, they were all great – nothing mattered.

 

But when someone fell on hard times, our support team always had a fund raiser that brought them out of the hole.  The Goff, Tucker, Spencer, Dean, and Cooper families always held it all together.

 

I worked, partied and cleaned fish with these folks.  We ‘uz good friends.

 

Names to remember?

 

Pete the well digger, Teddy Bear, Jim Tucker’s a bad sapsucker, John the Goofy, Starvin’ Marvin, Moose Tookie, Roger Dodger,
Raymond Sands, Jalbo, Coopon, Can’t-tell-a tater-till-u-peal-it, King Baby, Boathead, Fo, Towbuddy, Sam-the-sham, Chock and Wee Bob,Strick9, Ed Miller Chicken for dinner,Marcus and Helen Campbell, Sparky, Judge Low, Simp Tate, Hezzie, Uncle Debbie, Boogy Edington, Vince Gill, Roy Bullock, Bobby Hawkins, Ed Gossett, Mr. Willy Anderson, Pete Sardine, Phil Gagleano, Jimmy Ganong, Two Dogs, Joe Small, Cask King, Rico, Crazy Shirley, Glen Whitt and Jane, Big Roy Hurst, Glen The Marlboro man, Howard McGee, Popi, Mr. Slick, Fred Watkins, Charley Chan, Billy-wan, Ms. Vicky, Mad-dog, Hard Times, Gary Hicky Daughtry, Dennis Percival, Henry Massy.

 

Keep that line wet
Tait Tate
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Well, we hain’t heard from Tait Tate for some time now, obviously.

But not to worry.  He usually does a kind of hibernation during the winter.  We reckon some-wheres on the peninsula but we jes’ cain’t be sure.

He’ll be back tellin’ us about the fishin’.  He always comes back.

We kinda think it has somethin’ to do with that gold coin he wears.

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