06/01/2026
After a lonnnnng and rainy Memorial Day Weekend, I decided to go back to Ravenwood Park and do a little bank fishin'. I hooked into what was probably my all-time PB largemouth in the Ravenwood pond on a Monkey-Butt River2Sea USA Whopper Plopper 130. I thought I snagged a damn turtle til it surfaced...took me under a log, got free, left my $25 plopper...
Next day I drug the yak down to the pond, paddled over, got my lure back. Rigged it up, 2 casts in, hung up in a bush about 60' away. In my infinite wisdom, I yanked it out of the bush as hard as I could...and right into my leg. Lemme tell ya...them treble hooks don't mess around. Took me an hour to dig it out. 10/10 do not recommend. Make sure ya carry a REAL first aid kit and a sharp knife.