recollection

long ago, i drove through the night ... non-stop 20 hours headed for your

door... a chartreuse spinnerbait tied on a rod .. i rehearsed the line i

would use when you opened the door .... and the cast I would make to catch

one of your fabled lunker bass. we wasted little time after my arrival

shortly after dawn, and in a leaky boat packed with the best tackle we could

afford you put on a show ... you caught fish on a pico pop, and I think a

stick bait .. the bass were post spawn and suspended off shore. I made a

fair showing with my spinner bait, and maybe imitated your topwater style

... but I had been shown my destiny, and in my exhausted, loaded reverie i

held to that vision. we fished nearly 3/4 way around the lake .. well you

have the pictures and hopefully the memory is as lucid for you as it is for

me ... and then there was the time on table rock when bruce and i collapsed

in exhaustion, and you performed in the zone ....

publisher recollection of visit to dd west, catching a 5 plus largemouth about an hour after arrival