On Mon, 08 May 2006 04:02:59 GMT, "Doc Elder"
wrote:

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roups.com...
Maybe it is a just a bad translation. The article says the interview
was conducted by a german newspaper. Probably went from english to
germand and back to english...and the word "Bass" got confused with the
word "Perch".

Tim Lysyk


The perch is probably okay, since "perch" is widely used regionally as a
generic term for about any panfish. I'm wondering if maybe the orginal
interviewer misunderstood the unit of measure and then things go mangled
further when Reuters translated it. A 3 lb 4oz Redear or Crappie would be a
hog, but very realistic. Yes, it would be a state-record for a Reaear, but
not by much and outside of a few select species, it's not uncommon to see
all sorts of fish caught larger than the listed state-records, because most
people don't think of them as trophy fish and aren't interested in jumping
through the hoops to get a record certified. I don't care about records
really, unless of course I happened to land a World Record Largemouth. The
kind of money that would bring in would buy an awful lot of fishing gear.

-Doc Elder

Doc Elder


FWIW, some older Southerners (and probably others), not concerned with
all the various names of the subspecies of black bass, call any
"smallmouth" bass (i.e., all of the small-mouthed bass) "green perch." I
didn't follow the link, so I don't know about the context of whatever
was contained at the link.

TC,
R