It would look like a 90 if you were holding it. :rotf2:

boat fish, right??????

Oh, for crissakes, it was weighed on a #^&#^&#^&#^&ing certified scale. :doh:

You guys #^&#^&#^&#^&ing kill me with all of this nonsense. :hs:

didn't take long..which makes me feel bad for him, if it's started here already. Man I hope that fish didn't eat anything suspect.

Congrats to him, that is a hell of a fish.

I'm safe - I always dream of an 84#er :tooth:

i'll wager that a larger fish will be caught
because .... i totally have that vibe....is all...

just sayin... great accomplishment, yup

Some people know how to take a good fish pic and some just don't. I had a friend take a pic of me with a 30 next to another guy with a 40 and because I was holding mine differently it looked bigger.

I'm with John, this is one hell of a catch and if early reports say its an 81 and the new world record lets give this guy his day in the sun. If its not true we will know soon enough.

I told you so. :uhuh::fishin:

totally agree, I revised post to make clear I wasn't questioning it. It's a helleva fish no matter what the photos looks like, its just I expected more!

Tonight the internet will burn down.. Flame wars, etc. over the fact that its a legit catch or not. i'm going to buy some popcorn and lurk :hihi:

i dont know what the big deal is... I never show'd you the pic of my 81?

Let me see if I can find it........... hmmm oh.. here it is... Remember it like it was just this morning. :rotf2:

It's unfortunate, but in a month from now this guy is going to wish he'd never caught it.

Unless I hear something official contradicting these reports - he won't be hearing it from me ;)

Congratulations to him :btu:
quite an accomplishment pulling a record striper out of the water.

There must be a 100 pounder out there someplace
I can't believe that was caught in CT in August :wall:

thankfully he's a Red Sox fan too :fishin:

Hey Joe, he caught your fish :grins:

That picture looks photoshopped :rotf2::rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

pass the butter ted

Damn shame too because a catch like this should be celebrated, but your right people will question this down to every detail even his character, not to mention the hard core C&R guys.

Good luck to him and again congrats on the fish of a lifetime.

That is an incredible catch.

The good news is that we don't have to hear about McReynolds fish anymore.

If I caught that fish, I would put a spongebob rod in the back of the truck and say I caught it on that.

as was said. Who cares how big it looks, it was weighed on a certificied scale. Congrats to the fisherman.

pinkish gill......no ice ????
 

monster fish, doesn't seem like it was iced well, a fish that monumental deserves to be iced REAL soon after coming into the boat. especially knowing he had a potential record fish. He knows it was alot bigger than those other beasts he weighed in.
Not much ice in that cooler, or a wet towel, either.
either way, amazing feat.
congrats.:drool:

God.....imagine if he was wearing a yankees or jets shirt.............

So because I work for a seafood company I'm automatically disqualified for ever catching the world record striper?

heres another pic.

thing is a beast either way.

what boat guys dont carry a camera?? I carry one eevrywhere I go while fishing, waterproof fuji is the bag every trip.

Fish needed to be iced down, looks awful all red.

Late July and early August have been the best time for large bass off the reefs in CT, at least for the last few years. Congrats to the angler, and remember when you are stuck in traffic going through CT to the Cape or R.I. that there are no fish in CT!

And the bad news is it'll be replaced by all sorts of bull #^&#^&#^&#^& about the Stromski fish. :doh:

It was stuffed. It was full of sash weights. It was caught in the EEZ. It was caught in a net and given to him by a (friend, brother-in-law, cousin, ET off an alien craft--take yer pick) and that's why it looks like crap in the picture.

I guarantee you'll hear all of those and more before the weekend's out. Half of the fishing world hasn't heard about it yet.

Congrats to the angler. Like Mike said, it was weighed on a legit scale. That's good enough for me unless it's proved otherwise. I hope he's on cloud 9 right now. I know I'd be...

If you get a potential world record fish and want to weigh it in, you gotta have your A-game on on how you handle the whole deal. Call in for 200 lbs of ice, cooler when you get to the dock. Document everything in detail, state biologists on site asap, ect.! The more solid evidence the better!

Sorry honey.
I'm spooning the bass tonight

Weighing on a certified scale is not enough for me. I trust the weight of the scale BUT the internals, guts, along spine, ect. of the fish NEEDS to be checked out. If all goes well, you gain a TON of credibilty.

even faster than I thought... poor guy.

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maybe the guys' name is not Al

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Some fish just like Cake.

[QUOTE=RIROCKHOUND;876920]Sorry honey.
I'm spooning the bass tonight[/QUOTE

Cmon honey. Theres not enough room in this bed for the 3 of us.

Jesus---Bizarro-world seems to be all around today. Now OTW is reporting that the dude decided that he didn't want to submit the fish for the record, and took it home with him. Now the rumor mill is really gonna get cranked up. :rotf2:

GREAT JOB, SIR!!
 

That fish is looking bigger and better with each photo. A surf bass? I'm dying know what lure he used? Broken Back Chicken Scratch Stock is going though the roof, oh boy

Now they are saying it was from a boat?

This morning, Striper Cup angler Greg Myerson weighed in a striped bass that registered 81.88 pounds on the scale at Jack’s Shoreline in Westbrook, Connecticut – almost 12 hours after it had been landed Thursday evening aboard a boat in Long Island Sound. If the fish had been properly documented, it could have been eligible for the world record. However, at the moment Myerson has decided to take the fish home at not pursue record certification. Here’s a photo of the fish, taken earlier this morning.
_OTW

Oh how I hate the games that are played when something like this happens

when a world record fish is caught like this or any other, the igfa verifies all the details.

heres the paperwork that needs to be filled out, its pretty thorough.

http://www.igfa.org/PDF/IGFA_Record_...ation_2011.pdf

read the top part of page 1, they will subject you to a ploygraph if need be.

Hopefully he comes away from this with the new record.

if they open it up and its got 5 lbs of lead form yo yo bunker bunker but he has nothing to do with it, that would suck for the angler

technology is a biatch sometimes... case in point.

"Al McReynolds' 78.8-pound record, caught in Atlantic City, NJ, has stood since 1982. Though many anglers have come close to that mark, it has yet to be topped. Over the years, there have also been a large amount of hoax record catches, though this time, it would seem, evidence is mounting that Stromski has legitmately toppled a record thousands have dreamed of crushing. Actually, I just got word that Stromski Myerson quickly weighed the fish and fled the scene at the tackle shop, so there is still a slight element of shadiness here."

There's something going on here. Why would you kill a big fish like that then say you weighed it then not want to submit for a record.

Sounds fishy.