:eek5:...with some of the places I fish, I don't think I could carry it back to the truck, I'd have to drag it,,,and by the time it reached the truck it would already be a 1/2 mount that barely weighed 30#s. :conf:

DITTO, definitely shake the hand of the next Champ!
And hand him some fresh wood, a cold beer, and a Cohiba!!

How many of us believe that there truly is an 80+#'er out there?
Are there 100 #'ers out there as some legends have suggested?
Sure would be nice to find out some Striper dawn.......................
She'd, no doubt, either make ya or break ya!

I have often thought about this topic.

I would get the weight certified, lots of pictures and a good sports agent and lawyer. I am convinced that the next world record is a
$5M fish.

Endorsements for every piece of gear you used to catch the fish and I don't mean free stuff. I'm talking money. Rod, reel, line, waders, swivels, clip, down to what underware you were wearing. If it were a boat fish you are talking boat, motor, GPS, fishfinder, compass, rod holders, rocket launchers, fuel/water separators every friggin' thing on the boat. A good sports agent would know how to leverage this feat.

Then there would be the sport show tour. Articles written either by you or thru a ghost writter. The list goes on....

what would I do if I caught a 79+ striper...
the same thing as last time, keep her in the water, remove the hook, pat her on the head, walk her around until she wants to break free and give her a push toward deeper water.

fame? fortune? a Jedi seeks these not!

What about pix? shirley, you'd snap a few for posterity's sake :bl:?

I couldn't say it better myself...
G

I'll know soon enough because it is bound to happen for me. I've broken off a bunch of fish the last couple years that felt like they were world's records for sure, and a couple I saw in the waves with my eidetic memory were over 100 lbs for sure. :rotf2:

Kidding aside, I'd do what any sane human being would do...try to make a buck off it and laugh all the way to the bank while people bashed me for being lucky....because of course they'd be right. There would never be anything more indicitive of "it is better to be lucky than good" than if I caught the world record.

Agreed

I suppose I'd have to kill my fishing partner on the spot so he couldn't tell how/where I caught it. :D (sorry Joe, Paul, Eben or John) Make sure I remove all evidence of the eel and eel hook from it's mouth

Drive to the other end of RI and pretend to recatch it on my most expensive namebrand, rod and reel, line and plug AFTER donning every single piece of name brand gear I could find. Then, I'd weigh it at a certified scale, while still wearing said gear (for the photos of course).

after that, a lucrative career opening supermarkets, attending state fairs and being the grand marshal for parades... maybe while wearing a cape with a big striper woven on it. And a scepter shaped like a surf rod. With a crown of needlefish...

:D:D:D

ditto. just a stupid fish.

nice!!! :uhuh:

Gotta agree about Al - it ain't ruining my life.

I think it worth less than a lot of us think it is. It ain't a LMB!

I totally agree with that statement. A 25 pound largemouth could be worth millions but a 80 striper....I doubt. Just doesnt have the same exposure.....

Yo-Zuri

awesome thought process . you might need it with all the knuckleheads out there today . maybe that was u.p.s thought too but then why the funny shorts ?

I have never thought about what I would do , but an attorney and an agent might be in order . or maybe I wouldnt tell anyone and then no one will want to follow me and ask me where oh where did that striper come from oh where oh where might she live .

my luck, i'd get it on wire!:doh: