President Bush smashes Texas fishing record

That's what's being reported in the German Newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

http://tinyurl.com/nnc4c

When asked about his high point since becoming president in January
2001, he said, "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a
7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake."

Does this sound more than a little fishy to anyone else? Aside from the
exotic Nile perch, no species of perch in North America comes anywhere
close to this weight.

http://www.hotspotfishing.com/record...ords-Perch.asp

That would have been a PHENOMENAL perch.

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"rw" wrote in message
nk.net...
That's what's being reported in the German Newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

http://tinyurl.com/nnc4c

When asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001,
he said, "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound
(3.402 kilos) perch in my lake."

Does this sound more than a little fishy to anyone else? Aside from the
exotic Nile perch, no species of perch in North America comes anywhere
close to this weight.

http://www.hotspotfishing.com/record...ords-Perch.asp

That would have been a PHENOMENAL perch.

Get a hobby.

Wolfgang

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

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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

HI Doc !
MT

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

wrote in message
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

wrote:

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.

The White House has a belated transcript of the interview, attributing
"perch" to a mistranslation. Now their story is that it was a bass,
which is at least plausible.

If catching a 7.5 pound bass was the high point of Bush's tenure as
president, just think what a high catching Osama bin Laden would have been.

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On Mon, 08 May 2006 21:51:55 GMT, rw wrote:

wrote:

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.

The White House has a belated transcript of the interview, attributing
"perch" to a mistranslation. Now their story is that it was a bass,
which is at least plausible.

If catching a 7.5 pound bass was the high point of Bush's tenure as
president, just think what a high catching Osama bin Laden would have been.

Considering all that he's accomplished - or hasn't - I'd say his catching a
fish *is* the high point of his tenure to date...

/daytripper (why anyone takes joy that he has 3 more years is beyond me)

daytripper wrote:
On Mon, 08 May 2006 21:51:55 GMT, rw wrote:

wrote:

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.

The White House has a belated transcript of the interview, attributing
"perch" to a mistranslation. Now their story is that it was a bass,
which is at least plausible.

If catching a 7.5 pound bass was the high point of Bush's tenure as
president, just think what a high catching Osama bin Laden would have been.

Considering all that he's accomplished - or hasn't - I'd say his catching a
fish *is* the high point of his tenure to date...

/daytripper (why anyone takes joy that he has 3 more years is beyond me)

We only have his word that he caught the fish. I'll only believe it
with pictures and two witnesses ( but not one of the usual gang of
suspects). His highpoints seem to be telling lies.

Muskie, is that you?