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I heard it was either the Gut or the Race. You have the IGFA record book? It's still the 50# class record, they should have the general area. I'm not sure how accurate my memory is, but I think it says "Orient Point, NY". Which, no doubt, is the port it was brought into. But if that's also where it was caught, chances are it came out of Plum Gut.
I don't have the record book.
I had to laugh last night at a comment someone threw at me on noreast.com As you might have seen, I got into it with a guy from the Cape who claims he fishes eels on 6# test, who thought I was an idiot for suggesting to Patrick that 12# test was "pushing the envelope" for throwing eels. Anyhow, his buddy shows up late last night and told me that the guy has beached many fish that would be IGFA line-class records on light gear, but never submitted the record application because he doesn't want to give up the spots he's fishing---like, to submit an application, you'd have to state that you caught a fish from "the third point north of the parking lot at Newcomb Hollow", or provide the exact GPS coordinates if you were on a boat. All they require is a general area. When Brad submitted his 12# test Atlantic Bonito record application in 1978, all he had to do was state that it was caught on "Martha's Vineyard Island", not from Wasque Point.
BTW---the last time I looked at the book, all of the records for bass on 6# test and up were fish well over 50 lbs--most are over 60. I'd like to see all the 50s that guy is putting on the beach with 6# test.
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