Capt Bob Rochetta vs Albert McReynolds

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I think the reason McReynolds story changes so much, (if at all), is because everytime you read about it the story is being told by another writer, or someone who has new information. While Albert may not be going downriver with both oars in the water I don't think he is lying. The fish would have weighed more if he was able to put it on a scale in a timely fashion.
He spoke at a monthly M.S.B.A. meeting a few years ago and brought his wife and son along. At times he was difficult to listen too. I am not sure why. It always bothers me when I listen to people trying to take something away from a person who has nothing. And the McReynolds family has nothing from my perspective. If Albert McReynolds didn't catch this fish his life would have been completely empty of anything worthwhile from most peoples standards. I have always felt that if anyone else caught that fish, anyone, who had all his teeth, wasn't dressed in tattered clothing, whose wife didn't have a "fat ass", he would have been treated much differently. Nobody else was there except him and his buddy, but so many people are so sure he didn't catch that fish.

Every winter someone dredges up something else, a new theory based on supposition, conjecture, and unfounded rumors, about him and "the fish".