The Eastatoe is a fun river, but certain parts will try to kill you. I've dunked my waders more than a few times, came face to face with the largest cotton mouth of my life, and met an extra from the movie Deliverance. Oh yeah, and that time I hiked the trail above twin falls, but wanted to fish below the falls. Going down wasn't nearly as bad as going back up.
Those Appalachian stream cottonmouth's are much more deadly than their east of the fall line cousins. You narrowly averted disaster.
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
A rock under my foot gave way so I reached out to brace myself on a brush pile. He was about a foot away, mouth open, and no smaller than my arm. Being a hour hike from my vehicle I would have been dead for sure.
You must have hit your head and didn't realize it.
The best SC (and GA) trout fishing I ever had always took a lot of hiking and wading. We had a place in Georgia east of Clayton where we used to wear 'em out.
"Only accurate rifles are interesting " - Col. Townsend Whelen
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