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| Rumbanator
Minnow Username: Rumbanator Post Number: 10 Registered: 3-2006  Rating: N/A |
Here is the link. While I don't doubt that the record bass was caught, I have to question the intelligence of the anglers involved. You catch the largest Bass in the last 100 years and you don't weigh it on certified scales, you don't measure it and you don't keep it! That fish would be in Bass Pro Shops in Missouri two seconds after they make me out a check for 1 mil. There is no way in Hell I release it back into the lake so somebody comes along and breaks the record next year or the year after. Some people just don't have any sense. Not to mention how much doubt it will cast on the validity of the catch... Hand held weight...why did they release it...etc. Jeeze Louise! http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?page=f_fea_bass_world-record_Weakley_25.1 | ||
| Hawlin_bass
Bluegill Username: Hawlin_bass Post Number: 187 Registered: 1-2005  Rating: N/A |
I'm with you Dave! I couldn't believe that writeup. Huge fish and don't go and show everyone! I'd be going around with a bullhorn. | ||
| Bigun
Hybrid Username: Bigun Post Number: 849 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
I saw this and immediately thought the same exact thing. Just don't quite get it. Quit being a mad, little bald man! | ||
| Dru
Bluegill Username: Dru Post Number: 140 Registered: 2-2005 Rating: N/A |
Look here at Keith Nighswonger's - The Brush Pile for photo and story http://www.probassanglers.com/brushpilenew.htm BassZone.com | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1724 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
I get it. If he foul hooked the fish then it could not be submitted. Putting her back and hoping that she would return to the nest like so many other bass do after being hooked and trying to get her to take a bait seems like the right thing to do. There were apparently a lot of people around that saw this so there would be no stretching the truth or leaving out the small detail of where she was hooked. Heck of a fish for sure and I hope they can hook it the right way and break the world record. Of course, I also kinda hope that they don't and we can get the record here in Texas before they hook her in the mouth...   Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Clark
Minnow Username: Clark Post Number: 33 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Not the first time a California angler has broke the record amid speculation. Anybody remember Paul Duclos, made the cover of Outdoor Life in 1997 with his 24 lber? http://www.worldrecordbass.com/hof.asp?ID=6 And I read it may stand as a record even if she was foul hooked? Either way, you gotta love a good fish story and that fish looks crazy big. | ||
| Justhrowit
Minnow Username: Justhrowit Post Number: 55 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
Clark.. Wasn't that the fish that the guy took home, weighed himself on a bathroom scale, then re-weighed himself holding the fish? That may be a different fish I'm talking about. Huge fish for sure. This most recent foul hooked fish looks bigger and believable than Duclos' J | ||
| Clark
Minnow Username: Clark Post Number: 34 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Thats the one Jay. Weakley's story seemed very similar, another huge California bass, no certified scale, no measurements and the fish was released. Those California boys need a Sharelunker program in the worst way, dont you think? |
