The great thing about a truly awe-inspiring catch is how it causes you to forget simple things like documentation. I keep a 5 gallon bucket on each side of the pond for short-term fish storage; when I caught a really neat BG last month it was all I could do to decide to kill or keep it, and then photo and release it. It never occurred to me to put it in the bucket and take time to think. And the bucket was 2 feet way.

"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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