The proprietor of Cloverleaf Landing, Lucy “Pie” Hollings, or “Miss Pie,” is a living legend and a pillar of the local river-folk community. A good or bad word about you from Pie can make or break a hunter or angler’s reputation. And even if you don’t personally know her, failing to at least know of her while proclaiming to be a sportsman is akin to joining a Mardi Gras society and not knowing who Joe Cain was.
Asked if we’re taking care of the Delta, where she’s lived for 77 years, Lucy “Pie” Hollings says: “No, we’re not. We’re not taking care of it at all … a lot can be done, but they don’t try to preserve [the Delta] like it’s supposed to be. People throw trash and stuff in it … like they do a highway …. it’s not a highway. If trash gets in the water, then fish get up under it and the turtles, [and] it kills them … I want to preserve [the Delta] like it is, no high-rise, no nothing. Just let it stay all natural.”
Video Interview by Caine O’Rear from Mobile Baykeeper’s CURRENTS (Winter 2024)
