LARGEMOUTH

June 2nd 1932, it was a stagnant Georgia morning; the oppression of the day’s heat was quickly approaching. George Perry, a 19-year-old farm boy, and his friend glide through a black water lake in their homemade boat. Perry casts his one and only lure, a natural scale fintail slider. Almost instantly an eruption of water, spastic splashing, Perry rears back and tries to reel, but it won’t budge. He fears he has lodged his only lure, but then, a tug. Line pulls out, he finds himself in the fight of his life, yanking and reeling, his forearms burn; he is exhausted, but also triumphant. He lands a mammoth 22 1/4 pound
Largemouth Bass measuring 33 ½ inches, the biggest largemouth bass ever to have been landed by a fisherman.

Largemouth, is a short documentary that will revisit and recreate the historical event that took place in Montgomery Pond in, Jacksonville, Georgia, over seven decades ago. That days events will be revealed in juxtaposition to the modern fishermen’s surplus of technology and equipment. The simplicity of a depression era farmer out to catch supper for his family compared to the plethora of gadgets, lures, and boats currently used trying to catch glory and a fat check.

My Documentary project was picked to be produced in class. Only four out of twenty four ideas were chosen.

-Adam