At Fish Camp near present Homer, Nebraska, Clark has a fishing net made to drag through a beaver pond, and they catch over 300 fish. When smoke appears, fur trader Pierre Dorion looks for Indians.
Freshwater Drum
Aplodinotus grunniens
Photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Productive Beaver Pond
went out to Beaver Dam across a Creek about a mile S W from Camp, and with a Brush Drag caught 308 fish, of the following kind (i’e) Pike, Samon, Bass, Pirch, Red horse, Small Cat, & a kind of Perch Called on the Ohio Silverfish I also Caught the Srimp which is Common to the Lower part of the Mississippi, in this Creek & in the Beaver Pond is emince beads of Mustles Verry large & fat—
—William Clark
Dorion Pursues Signals
in my absence Capt Lewis Send the Souex interpr & a party to a Smoke which appeared to rise at no great distance to the north . . . . in the evening this Party returned and infoermed, that the fire arrose from Some trees which had been left burning by a Small party of Seoux whom had passed Several Days—
—William Clark
