42.5" 33# and change. Caught it 9/5/02 on a live eel here in Westport. Had been getting "bluefished" all night and had only 3 eels left. I decided to move away from the blues. When I hooked the eel he performed the elusive eel knot, followed by a triple lutz, after about 10 minutes of untangling I decided that he deserved to be fed to the blues. Threw him into the bluefish and caught the biggest bass of my lifetime so far.