This Big One Didn’t Get Away

Latest ShareLunker is one of a kind, and a heart-warming story, too.

(March 10, 2009 ) ATHENS, Texas—ShareLunker program manager David Campbell often says anglers who donate big bass to the program are the best conservationists in Texas, and that statement is backed up by what happened at Lake Fork Saturday.

Guide James Caldemeyer was fishing with clients Brian Ketterer and Shannon Spear of Conroe, and they were looking forward to catching some big fish.

They had no idea what they were about to get into when they pulled into a small cove with nearly a dozen other boats. “With my polarized sunglasses I could see a fish swimming slowly near the surface, and it looked like she was struggling,” said Caldemeyer. “I caught her with my net. I could see she was a gigantic fish and that she was in trouble. My concern was for the welfare of the fish, so I netted her and put her into the livewell and told my clients that we needed to take her in so her air bladder could be punctured—I didn’t have a needle with me.”

It's About Time - As a Measurment or a Memory, Time is What Matters

”Do you have the time?” someone asked.
“No, now-a-days it seems I don’t have time for anything” I replied.
“No, the time of day according to a clock,” the someone clarified.

“No, sorry. I don’t wear a watch, but it feels like it is about 3:30,” I answered reflecting on my first reply. of all the modern technology we have amassed as a culture, we have not been able to add hours to the day. There are still just 24, except for those daylight-saving days when they add or steal one from us. Technology only allows us to try and do more in one day than most people used to.