It was 34 years ago today that our late-friend, Dewey Mullins (left), caught this 13-3 largemouth (right) during a fishing trip to Back Bay. Unfortunately, his record-Virginia fish never got the recognition it deserved, because another angler in a different part of the state caught a bigger one before officials could get Dewey's catch registered.
As he used to joke, though, all was not lost in his paperwork glitch. He still had the mounted citation fish on the wall, so he often got to relive that moment he did what so many other anglers only dream of doing. Besides that, Dewey would say, "I still have some of those Tom Mann 6-inch jelly worms." His reference was to the giant cardboard box crammed full of jelly worms, in every color of the rainbow, that arrived at his door, courtesy of Mr. Mann, a few days after word had spread about the record catch. You see, Dewey had used a 6-inch, white jelly worm as a trailer for his spoon that September day.
You may be gone, my ol' friend, but you'll never be forgotten--not if I can help it.
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