Welcome to this country life. I'm your host Brent Reeves. From Coon hunting to

trot lining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while

as I share my stories and the country skills that will help you beat the system.

This country life is proudly presented as part of Meat Eater's Podcast Network,

bringing you the best outdoor podcast the Airways have to offer.

All right, friends, pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate.

I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

Hunting and fishing food.

Taking Grocer's with you to get you through the day out in nature can literally be anything

you can poke in your pockets. We're going to talk about some of my favorites and how I've

done it over the years, but first I'm going to tell you a story.

During the same time period of getting bitten by the copperhead I talked about that on

episode 147 you hadn't heard it you might want to take a listen but me and my running partner Wayne Parnell

decided to go fishing at Lake Sheco near the small town of Lake Village in the

southeast corner of the state.

Lake Shico is an old Oxbow Lake off the mighty Mississippi River.

It's the largest natural lake at Arkansas, and get this,

at three quarters of a mile wide and a mile. Lake at

a Arkansas and get this at three quarters of a mile wide and 22 miles long

that's 5,000 acres of surface water and it makes it the largest oxbow lake in North America.

The name Sheko comes from the French word for stumps,

which is what those early explorers called the Cypressneys that grew along the bank. I've been tripping over Cypress Nees that grew along the bank.

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