An alligator suns on a log as a fisherman enjoys some cane-pole fishing on the Chickasaw Bayou May 15

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, January 13, 2004

. The rising waters of the bayou are from the Mississippi River which crested at the Vicksburg gauge at 42.5 feet in late May. (Melanie Duncan Thortis/The Vicksburg Post)

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