The Riverrunner Adventures: Life Down South on The River

This book tells of a lifetime of adventures along the rivers of southern Alabama, in particular, the Alabama River, Alabama River Cutoff, and the Tombigbee river. The stories of hunting, fishing, boating and camping will show any outdoors person what it's like first hand to use a homemade houseboat for decades to have fun and adventure on the water. The good times will be matched at times with critical weather conditions, hurricane damages, flooding annually on the river system, catching huge catfish along the rivers with trotline, jugs and limb lines.The raw power of the rivers, the beautiful natural beauty of the swamp combined with Spring flowers blooming only adds to the Fall colors of the trees in seasonal changes.This book list the fishing tackle and gear needed to fish for catfish, how to make trotlines, and limb lines, baits and how to make them at home and much more.In the hunting chapters, I cover the various hunting seasons, game encountered, how to hunt deer in the swamp regions, and the gear needed.The camping chapters describe how we camped on the sandbars, camp house, and houseboat with memories of years past.For solar power, great detail in how I created a functioning solar power system to run everything needed on a houseboat off grid. This will be a remarkable chapter that can be used on any off grid cabin or site.This book is the accumulation of a lifetime of living along the rivers, and the wonderful memories with descriptions of those events as the years went past. If you have ever boated, hunted, fished or camped down in southern Alabama, you will probably recognize some familiar places I include in this book. Read more