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I met Joe Szabo a bunch of years ago and asked him about it. He dropped in at the house of a friend I was at. He was with my friend's brother. This is the story he told me. Whether he was entirely straight about it I don't know but he seemed to be.
It was stormy, or at least the wind was howling and the surf was up. He and others drove from spot to spot looking for fish. They came to where he caught it (pm me for the spot I don't know if the spot police would be upset if I posted it) and the wind was at his back. He was using an eel and the wind took it way up and way out. But the fish hit very close, virtually at the beach. It didn't put up much of a fight and it was over quickly. He was dissapointed with that. He didn't weigh it until a long time after. Not realizing the potential, he left it on the lawn. If I remember correctly it might have been a whole day or something like that. At the prodding of some others he decided to take it to get weighed. He felt it would have weighed more had he weighed it as soon as he could have.
I don't recall if it was at night.
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