Rookie photog?

If you guys won't buy the F&S story then how about one by On The Water who actually went there in person, inspected and photographed the fish. Would that be enough?

Story and Photos: Potential World Record Striper

Seriously how much extra weight will you get by stuffing a fish? A few lbs. Cause you sure as hell are not stretching his length. :smash:

The whole thing is an optical illusion. I heard the scale was recertified and the fish weighs 89.18 pounds now. IGFA world record and new line class record! :huh:

Ill bet anything fish was not rewieghed... Why not certify it??? Even at 50-51 in that fish does not have the body for that wieght, christ, how many 50-53 inch fish ive seen?!?!?!?!?!

5 pounds of lead doesnt take up that much room. Look at a 25 pound weight lifting plate, thats cast iron and doesnt take up too much room. Rebar is pretty heavy too. I'm saying the fish should be completely gutted, it wouldnt effect the lovely skin mount he'll get so theres no excuses. If you weigh it at 81 pounds, gut the fish and inspect it, and find nothing in the fish, its hard to argue its not the record. Anyone not allowing this has to be hiding something, or is not in it for the glory. If youre not in it for the glory, it would have been released and would have been just a rumor among a few good friends. You bring a fish forward like that, be ready to defend its status.

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buncha great pics here... Story and Photos: Potential World Record Striper

Hey cowhunter, admit it, you're mad because he's a redsox fan.
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You know whats stupidly priceless? Not a single person runnin their gums saw the fish ist hand. LOL.My 56lber was51 in. my 54 was 49 in my 53 was 52 in my 51 was 53 in. I've got a couple more in there too. LOL. I saw a 58 in that was 38lb.I also saw a 96 lb net fish that was 63 in long.The guy is credible. The jealousy isn't.Stupidly sad.My hats off to the guy. I've lost some really nice hogs an saw one over 60 in lost by a buddy on the Vineyard . big fish are out there. Thats a big fish. I have a 54 on the wall that that fish makes look like a Guppy.

Yeah, but you and I are so old that we still measure them at fork length. :rotflmao: :grins:

LOL so true so damn true LOL

Smart a-- LOL

What I find interesting is that the guy listing his 50s is proving the point that a 50" fish can't weigh 80+ lbs., WHILE ARGUING THE OPPOSITE.

Not one of his 50"+/- bass went 75, or 65, or even 60 pounds, but we are being asked to believe that the CT fish went 82.
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Jon--it's the girth that gives weight to a fish, not the length. That's why you square the girth, not the length, when you use the weight calculator. There are 50" fish that don't make it to 40 pounds, too. They're racers that are all head with no girth.

I can give you absolute proof that a low 50" fish can weigh over 75 lbs---Al McReynolds. That fish is well documented and it went 53-1/2", but with a massive girth at 35". At that length, it was a pound and a half short of 80 pounds. A 54" fish can easily go 80 lbs if it has the girth to go with it. Don't judge a fish's size by a bad picture. I've done it in the past and had to eat crow later. ;)

Common bud, U can tell wieght / length proportions... Broadness of tail, body, girth etc.. Not one correct lenght/ girth measurement? Ive seen VA fish that were 48-49 inches long and well over 50lbs. that fish aint it and that and what everybody else I know says.. I have seen fish 53"-54" long in the 60's, Yeah never a 70 or 80 and probably never will. I spoke with my buddy that personally saw mcreynolds fish and is laughing his but off in comparison... I nor anybody I know could hold em out like this guy... I got a 59 on the wall and it looks bigger, the 53.10 mouth that I have is bigger than that fish.. There are alot of variables... I predict it will not be accepted as a WR By IGFA...
Look at the mouth where he is putting a tape measure too. You can get an idea of the girth and how the belly is sunken in... I cant tell u how many guys predicted this when Vican caught his fish.

If that fish was 54" and it had the girth of some of the fish Ive seen agreed.. I never said a 54" fish cant be 80.. A 49-50" fish, it would look like a footbal, 1 " Is a huge amount on a fish.. That fish doesnt have the broadness... No way. And yeah., I personally measured a 52" fish that was 35LBS on the Cape, thin as could be... Common Guys, This is supposed to be a world Record striped Bass, big news, bigger that OTW or FS, why the quietness and been nearly 48 Hours????

You guys all did read, weve been out of recession since 2009!

[QUOTE: stripermaineiac: "You know whats stupidly priceless? Not a single person runnin their gums saw the fish ist hand".


To Stripermaniac: Your assumption that no one saw it first hand is stupidly priceless... You remember the crowd that was reportedly gathered at the shop for the weigh in??? Some of those people were actually fishermen... from this board... And it didnt look a pound over 65.

If the fish LOOKS like its 80+ youre fine... when it looks like its a 60, you get a video camera and you dissect the thing in front of Geraldo Rivera to dispel all doubt. I would do it to shut everybody the hell up preemptively.

If you fish just for fun and dont want cash, prizes, and fame, dont bring it to a shop to get weighed... weigh it at home on a deer scale... but if you want the lime light, prepare to have it shined up your Asss for a card-pulling colonoscopy.

And I just fell off the turnip truck. Sorry but that tape is NOT on the ground it's about 2" above it...but it IS in a direct straight line under the fish. We could sit here arguing about this all day. Not me. I still don't believe this picture. There's another shot of the mouth of the fish with a tape. 5" across the mouth. That also don't say 81lb. I've caught 30lbers with bigger mouths than that.
Off to work enjoy the conspiracy theories. :rotf2:

I understand that Mike, but has the girth of this fish been made public?

And do we have an accurate length yet?

Hypothetical weight calculations hold little water, just as a 'certified weight' is meaningless without opening the fish up.
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That pic just posted looks legit to me! Especially when compared to Vican's fish . Look at the guys track record and reputation ....

Some of you guys are ridiculous with your comments . :jump1::jump1:

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Thank You Jenn....:uhuh:

Is this still going on???? Pa-leeeez already!!!:smash:

This fellow is playing the Internet crowd as well as he played the fish.
The more controversy, the more publicity.....better for his bottom line.

He'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Jealousy is a powerful thing.

Huge fish and it may be a record but I have to agree,it's not 54". Blame the photographer if you like. Now my biggest was 46# so I really only have the pictures to judge.

All this talk about the fishes length is meaningless, we are talking about a weight record here. The IGFA will have the last word, leave it at that before questioning someones character.

If someone posted a picture of a 50lb. fish that the majority of the people found hard to believe based on several pictures along with some odd story-details, that person would get similar results in this silly virtual world of ours....this being a possilbe WR, it's just that much higher on the totem pole in and outside the inter-fishnet, in either case...no websitez is going to make someone cut a fish open for our own credibility approval. Like others have said, time will decide how this pans out. Hopefully, the powers that be, if and when it receives a WR title recognition, will clear up any possibility of discrepency.....otherwise....it will always have... :no2:

In seeing some of the pics, they do raise my eye-brows too,,, but I'm no visual expert to actually call it BS. It's a Super-Cow for sure, but the actual Holy Grail? Time will tell. My jury is still out for now.

Nice fish either way Mr. Meyerson.

Come on is spelled come on not common:smash:


Jenn, good one



a 25 lb bass has a mouth 5" across so I don't know what is up with that picture.:confused:


I guess if you are going to submit a fish for a record, you better be prepared for all kinds of possibilities to remove all doubt. I know I would have gone to several weigh stations and after driving around with it mounted to my front grille :buds:, I'd allow it to be cut open if questioned. And I would not allow anyone but my professional photographer brother to shoot pics of me and the fish, any pics would then be copyrighted.

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The point about the fish I stated is that Charlie Churches fish 73lb was 53 in and Charlie cintos fish-73 lb was in there too along with Al's fish 78 lb.You can't just go by length. I've taken 7 bunker over 2lbs each out of a fish along with a lobster an some crabs.MMMMM they have a huge ability to gorge themselves balooning their weight over 20 plus pounds when the food is available and not getting an inch longer.

Well, Charlie's about 5'6", so the fish looked a lot longer when he was holding it. ;)

In any event--Ken, don't take this as directed at you, because it's not. But this thread, in general, re-enforces my thinking that getting out of the Striper Cup, and tournaments in geneal besides my local "bragging rights only" one, was the right thing to do. There's more to life than fishing, and this stuff really isn't worth getting worked up over. If this isn't legit, then Mr. Myerson has to live with himself knowing he lived a lie. If it is legit, we kind of look like petty little children.

Part of me also wonders whether the reason for Al McReynolds to have so many demons chasing him over the years, to the point where he says his fish ruined his life, had to do with something amiss about the circumstances of the catch, and him having to live with knowing all those naysayers were right after all. I want to believe that Al really did catch the fish from the rocks on a legal terminal rig. I do believe it, but they'll always be a part of me that wonders, just based on what I know about human nature and the way he's acted over the years. I know that Charlie Cinto never lost a second of sleep over the fact that his fish wasn't eligible for the official record because the lure and line weren't legal. Charlie always enjoyed, and still enjoys, that fish for what it was. As does Tony Stetzlo, even though his 73 was never a record.

Take my advice--trust the woman's perspective here. They have this stuff prioritized better than those of us who carry more testosterone in our systems. ;)

The belly has depth, but she doesn't look like she's stuffed with bunker.

If she is 54" long, then her girth would need to be 35" to be 82lbs..

If she is 50", then her girth would need to be 36".
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Kierran saw the fish. None of the rest of us have. We're operating off pictures, and a lot of them aren't so good. Kierran has the best pictures, IMO.

If Crafty Angler still posted here, he could tell you the saga of me and Big #^&#^&#^&#^& Tremblay, when I questioned the size of Big #^&#^&#^&#^&'s fish based on a bad picture. Fish often look smaller, and thinner, when the guy holding them is a big dude, and Big #^&#^&#^&#^& Tremblay was even bigger than Myerson. Uncle Crafty gave me the needle for months afterwards. :D

Like I said above--my father knew Charlie Cinto, and Charlie gave him a picture of himself with his 73 pounder. Charlie's a little guy, and his fish looks like it's easily over 5' long when Charlie's holding it up. In reality, it was only 54-55 inches long. Al McReynolds is short and stocky, which also exaggerated the size of his fish, which was "only" 53-1/2" long.

Thankfully, I'm a skinny dude nowaday, so even though I'm on the tall side, a racer would look like it had the girth of an oil drum in my WR pictures. :rotf2:

Dont forget the pics of Iron Mike and his 60 lber.. small dude.. HUGE FISH

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