"John" wrote in message
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Steve said:
SNIP

and then was awarded the World Record, I would be
leading his cheering section.

Me too. But my point was to encourage folks to keep their fish alive and
let the biologists and officials see it and verify that is legitimate.
I'm all for catch and release but these guy's rush to throw her back
really muddied their water and clouded their chances for a legitimate
world record application.

There are any number of ways to keep a fish alive and healthy regardless of
boat size. They could have put the bass in a large, aerated cooler, in a
mesh "livewell" such as bank fishermen use or even on a stout rope stringer
through the lower jaw.

I can see how this fish could be a "release division" record, but the
all-tackle, all-time world record? NO WAY!!! Come on! In order to be in
the record books, it's based on a fish's weight. In this case, the fish was
never weighed on a certified scale, so that in and of itself should
disqualify the catch. Anyone can buy a Boga Grip, send it in and have it
certified to IGFA standards. I don't know about you, but if I was fishing
waters where a potential world record "ANYTHING" was swimming, I'd have
spent the couple hundred bucks for a certified Boga Grip.

I'm still not buying it.
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