There are a number of comments above that give good information about the Leatherwood area as well as the area around the mouth of Big Creek. In the 90s, I turkey hunted on the north side (mostly) of the big bend that has Big Creek of the south side and Hathaway Gap on the north side. In all of those hunts, I (we) motored down from Rush in a johnboat with a 9.8 motor. Usually, but not always, there is enough water to do that. On several of those hunts out camp was in the old WPA rock schoolhouse on the knob just downstream from the mouth of Big Creek. One evening, as we were grilling a steak in the yard of the old schoolhouse, a gobbler went to roost somewhere near Tater Hill. The next morning I gave him a ride back to camp on my shoulder. The best smallmouth bass I ever caught was at the mouth of Leatherwood Creek. Lots of memories from the lower Buffalo.