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)