"With every trip I
collect new mementos,
though few are collected
in scrapbooks. And
all who fish for bass
across the land collect
them too. They are
the images from first
light to last and from
first fish to last.
And we'd share them
in a minute. Some
recall particular triumphs,
often preserved in
snapshots and clippings,
while others we tend
to hide, at least until the
time we're ready to
laugh about them.
Daybreaks, canebrakes,
heartbreaks, muggy
nights, and foggy
mornings. A hundred
things that worked,
and a thousand more
that should have.
That's bass
fishing."— George Kramer