Just as long as it is not self-promoting
David Dibenedetto (sp?) aluded to much of this in his book On The Run. I have no personal knowledge or personal theory of what happened and what did not. His bass is in the IGFA as the world record holder, good enough for me until someone documents otherwise. On the other hand, the guy is probably not a saint (few people are, I'm not, Fishpart might be though) so some of it, justily or unjust as it may have been, was probably brought on himself. It would greatly suck that all of this has gone wrong for him and his family but it can't all be just because of the fish. That likely had a bad impact but it couldn't be the only thing. If he has been screwed by some of these other companys, hopefully he'll get his due.
Anyway, just a small observation. Not something I've given considerable thought to.