“The biggest piece I’ve ever found. Three quarters of an ounce....

“The biggest piece I’ve ever found. Three quarters of an ounce. July 12th, 2006. Happiest day of my life. I’d been kidding the guys at camp all week, telling them: ‘Today’s the day I’m gonna find the big one.’ Then one morning, I switched to a new position, and I put a hose on one spot and right away I thought I saw something gleaming. So I grabbed it faster than greased lighting and I threw it in my pan, and I heard a ‘THUNK,’ and I knew it was fat. I’m not even going to sell it. It’s not money to me. It’s achievement.”