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02-02-2008, 04:07 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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I'd submit the paperwork for the record. If no one ever paid me a dime, so be it. Pressure to top it? Why would I feel pressure to go out and get an 80  If it lasted only one day as the record, I'd shake the next angler's hand.
As for what the peanut gallery would say or accuse me of--it wouldn't bother me in the least. They can all pound sand for all I'd care 
With all due respect to Al McReynolds, a fish can only ruin your life if you let it ruin your life. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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02-02-2008, 04:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
I'd submit the paperwork for the record. If no one ever paid me a dime, so be it. Pressure to top it? Why would I feel pressure to go out and get an 80 If it lasted only one day as the record, I'd shake the next angler's hand.
As for what the peanut gallery would say or accuse me of--it wouldn't bother me in the least. They can all pound sand for all I'd care
With all due respect to Al McReynolds, a fish can only ruin your life if you let it ruin your life. |
Sounds reasonable. I'd see about securing rights to the images and try to control who photos it. Make sure that my gear is prominate
in said photos. Rod reel lure swivel snap line boots gloves beer on and on for possible sponships. As you said, Mike, I'd shake the next guy's hand.And hand him a plug with the other. |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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02-02-2008, 04:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Southern Maine
Posts: 178
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I'm OK w/a photo but I don't like the "BEHOLD! Here I am the great white hunter with my vanquished prey" thing...
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02-02-2008, 05:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,465
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That might be a big enough fish to make some boots out of, though I don't know how long they'd last.
-spence
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02-03-2008, 02:12 AM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
Sounds reasonable. I'd see about securing rights to the images and try to control who photos it. Make sure that my gear is prominate
in said photos. Rod reel lure swivel snap line boots gloves beer on and on for possible sponships. As you said, Mike, I'd shake the next guy's hand.And hand him a plug with the other.
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DITTO, definitely shake the hand of the next Champ!
And hand him some fresh wood, a cold beer, and a Cohiba!!
How many of us believe that there truly is an 80+#'er out there?
Are there 100 #'ers out there as some legends have suggested?
Sure would be nice to find out some Striper dawn.......................
She'd, no doubt, either make ya or break ya! |
"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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02-02-2008, 06:56 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
With all due respect to Al McReynolds, a fish can only ruin your life if you let it ruin your life.
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I agree with Mike on this wholeheartedly. Never before have these exacts words been said about the current record holder. Not in so many words anyways. Mr. McReynolds had to have been living that type of life that welcomed the continous negative reflection, before and after the fact, about his catching the big one.
It is nice to dream though and more than once did I have this dream. My fish weighs 88 #'s in my dream though. |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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02-02-2008, 07:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: jerseyshore
Posts: 4,949
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I would write a book... 
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FORE!
It's usually darkest just before it turns Black..
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02-02-2008, 07:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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get a lawyer.
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Why even try......... 
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02-02-2008, 07:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: jerseyshore
Posts: 4,949
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
get a lawyer.
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I high profile sports agent and lawyer..
Got a Lawyer joke.Whats the difference between a catfish and a lawyer??
Give up??
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One is a bottom feeding scum sucker and the other is a fish...
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FORE!
It's usually darkest just before it turns Black..
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02-02-2008, 07:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 1,749
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Take the ride for all you can, it won't last forever.
You'd never have to buy a rod or reel again.
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Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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02-02-2008, 11:15 PM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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 ...with some of the places I fish, I don't think I could carry it back to the truck, I'd have to drag it,,,and by the time it reached the truck it would already be a 1/2 mount that barely weighed 30#s.  |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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02-03-2008, 06:51 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,825
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I have often thought about this topic.
I would get the weight certified, lots of pictures and a good sports agent and lawyer. I am convinced that the next world record is a
$5M fish.
Endorsements for every piece of gear you used to catch the fish and I don't mean free stuff. I'm talking money. Rod, reel, line, waders, swivels, clip, down to what underware you were wearing. If it were a boat fish you are talking boat, motor, GPS, fishfinder, compass, rod holders, rocket launchers, fuel/water separators every friggin' thing on the boat. A good sports agent would know how to leverage this feat.
Then there would be the sport show tour. Articles written either by you or thru a ghost writter. The list goes on....
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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02-04-2008, 02:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,299
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Gotta agree about Al - it ain't ruining my life.
I think it worth less than a lot of us think it is. It ain't a LMB!
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02-03-2008, 05:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Matunuck, RI
Posts: 281
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
I'd submit the paperwork for the record. If no one ever paid me a dime, so be it. Pressure to top it? Why would I feel pressure to go out and get an 80 If it lasted only one day as the record, I'd shake the next angler's hand.
As for what the peanut gallery would say or accuse me of--it wouldn't bother me in the least. They can all pound sand for all I'd care
With all due respect to Al McReynolds, a fish can only ruin your life if you let it ruin your life. |
I couldn't say it better myself...
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02-04-2008, 11:11 AM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
Posts: 323
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I'll know soon enough because it is bound to happen for me. I've broken off a bunch of fish the last couple years that felt like they were world's records for sure, and a couple I saw in the waves with my eidetic memory were over 100 lbs for sure. 
Kidding aside, I'd do what any sane human being would do...try to make a buck off it and laugh all the way to the bank while people bashed me for being lucky....because of course they'd be right. There would never be anything more indicitive of "it is better to be lucky than good" than if I caught the world record. |
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02-04-2008, 11:57 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
I'd submit the paperwork for the record. If no one ever paid me a dime, so be it. Pressure to top it? Why would I feel pressure to go out and get an 80 If it lasted only one day as the record, I'd shake the next angler's hand.
As for what the peanut gallery would say or accuse me of--it wouldn't bother me in the least. They can all pound sand for all I'd care
With all due respect to Al McReynolds, a fish can only ruin your life if you let it ruin your life. |
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Domination takes full concentration..
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02-04-2008, 01:49 PM
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Wipe My Bottom
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,911
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
...a fish can only ruin your life if you let it ruin your life.
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ditto. just a stupid fish. |
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