My Biggest Fishing Catch

A doctor in the small town where I grew up had a killer fishing pond. Me and my buddies would get permission and after school we would have a field day using rubber worms with a weedless hook.I would always use a Zebco push button reel as I would backlash or bird nest open face reels. Sometimes I would take along my flyrod and reel. I would wax the line and see how far I could throw a popping bug. One Saturday morning me and a buddy of mine arrived at the pond at daybreak. We decided to fish off the bank and not use the boat. My buddy started fishing on one side and me on the other. I was using the fly rod and was casting with all my might to get it as far off the bank as I could. I did not see my buddy, who had moved to my side of the pond, coming up behind me. It was when I made my forward cast that I heard him holler. When I turned around I thought at first I had hooked him in the eye. I dropped my rod in horror and ran over to him. Blood was pouring from the  the popping bug which was embedded in his eyelid. I cut the flyline and we rushed to the door of the doctor who lived behind the pond. It was still very early in the morning as we feverishly beat on the door. We finally woke everyone in the house. I  remember everyone watching as he cut the barb on the hook and backed it out of the eyelid. My buddy learned a valuable lesson. Never walk behind someone casting a flyrod. I think that was our last fishing trip together.