Jerking out fish with a three-pronged hook

Jerking out fish with a three-pronged hook

Arkansas
Men -- Arkansas
Farms -- Arkansas

A black man standing on a stump watching a boy try to catch fish with a long thin pole with three-pronged end. Another man stands in the middle ground on the far bank watching while holding his own fishing rod.

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 118 of Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley by Clifton Johnson, 1906

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