Never Give Up Nostalgia:

July 17, 1999 and the Bergen Clan is having a tough time on the Connecticut River. The sky is sunny and the temps, both water and air, are hot. Nick Albano is fishing with a reserved Steve Schilling in the usual back water pond and they refuse to leave. Although both anglers have a few keeper dinks, the area produced big time before and despite other Bergenites coming and going, both guys stay put. They stubbornly travel around and around the pond, trying different lures, fishing deep and shallow and casting to every pocket. With a short time to go, Steve decides to put on a 10 inch black power worm and throws it into a weedline that was already fished at least 5 times. Bingo, he lands a four pounder, a likely Connecticut River lunker. This was no fluke, after a few more casts he lands bigger one, a 4 ½ pounder. Steve catches another one and ends up with a weight of 12 ½ pounds and his first ever Bergen victory with lunker to boot.