Part memoir, part cultural history and part historical vignette, Return to Elkins Creek is held together by the common thread of fishing as a touchstone in changing times.
Author Evan Peacock shares stories of learning to fish with rod-and-reel combos and artificial lures; coming-of-age angling misadventures with dubious backwoods characters; swapping fish for toilet paper during the Pandemic; a cheerfully inept expedition to a Florida bay where things were enlivened by a hurricane; and a return to where it all began, alongside a small creek in the hills of the Choctaw County backwoods, cane pole and bait jar in hand.
This book is a collection of funny, lighthearted anecdotes from a dedicated Mississippi fisherman.
More info: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Return-to-Elkins-Creek
