One time when when I was a kid and the river was up, my dad nailed a large piece of poultry wire to the side of a bateau boat. We went down the Altamaha River for a ways one night and did what he called slamming. We paddled upstream and would ease the boat up near the hill into a little indentation and then start thrashing the water with our paddles. The fish near the hill would panic and try to jump over the boat but would either land in the boat or hit the screen wire on the far side and fall into the boat. That night we caught about 50 pounds of perch and trout, with the biggest trout weighing about nine pounds. The fish made a distinctive sound as they leaped into the air. The bigger the fish, the deeper the sound. That was a wonderful few hours of fishing. We never did it again and I have never heard of anyone else fishing that way.
