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08-05-2011, 08:23 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
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Congratulations
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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08-05-2011, 08:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Greg fishes out of a tin boat in CT.Fish was weighed in with many there to witness. Talk about red gills are silly, if you have fished in the Back Eddy tournament the last two years you would know what a freezer burned fish looks like.Apparently Greg,who is a really big person,has not decided to pursue a world record and yes, he had some type of panic attack and left his own party with the fish in tow.I think,after reading of McReynolds travails, that he made a good decision.However,gone are endorsement deals,boats and any other freebies he would certainly garner for his considerable efforts.I know if I caught a World Record fish or even an IGFA class record it would be on a product with benefits,not a live eel.Welcome to tournament fishing...and the microscope that surrounds worthy accomplishments.
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08-05-2011, 08:52 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: CT
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Congrats Greg wish ya the best!
I can't imagine catching a fish of that magnitude. That bass is probably as old as me give or take a couple of years...
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08-05-2011, 09:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
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Sweet fish. Hope all you jealous anglers out there tryin to crap on it keep gettin crapped on by the fish gods and keep catching those giant schoolies you exagerate with photo shop to make them look legitamit. LOL Me I'll just plain drool all over myself with jealousy an keep tryin to beat 60 or another fish over 50 on another one of my plugs.Damn but thats one sweet fish.
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08-06-2011, 10:53 AM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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Originally Posted by stripermaineiac
Sweet fish. Hope all you jealous anglers out there tryin to crap on it keep gettin crapped on by the fish gods and keep catching those giant schoolies you exagerate with photo shop to make them look legitamit. LOL Me I'll just plain drool all over myself with jealousy an keep tryin to beat 60 or another fish over 50 on another one of my plugs.Damn but thats one sweet fish.
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Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
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08-06-2011, 10:56 AM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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I've caught plenty of 20lb fish that were all beat up, these fish ply there trade in the rocks you know..
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Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
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08-06-2011, 12:15 AM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
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The guy has a clue....I'd do the same...hunker down and think about value exploitation and promotion...the quietuses me think this fella is smart...CT fish in august...ever here of a guy named Sherwood Lincoln?
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08-06-2011, 05:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Congratulations. You shoulda claimed the record.
It's a crying shame that there are so many jealous pricks out there who have to ruin what others have done because they can't do it themselves.
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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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08-06-2011, 05:47 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
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ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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08-06-2011, 07:20 AM
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GrayBeards
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Nice
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08-06-2011, 07:56 AM
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got gas?
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Wow what a fish. This thread is just as interesting covers the range of human emotions from admiration to flat out envy and resentment. A mini social experiment.. Great fish that guys is a stud. Of course he went to URI all the best fisherman come from there. Class of 83. lol
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08-06-2011, 08:17 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
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LOL those that can't always resent those that due. It's why the ankle biters association is so big in our society.I laugh at them and tell them their jealousy flatters me. They don't realize that to those if us that do and can they don't mean anything to us and we laugh at their resentment.They;re sad people that make their own problems we just keep doing.Nice to see a great fish landed by a good fisherman instead of someone that won't appreciate what it really means.
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08-06-2011, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Congrats to Greg that dude is a fishing machine!!
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08-06-2011, 08:28 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
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Hopefully he has a valid fishing license
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08-06-2011, 09:06 AM
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Too old to give a....
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I want one of those.
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08-06-2011, 09:11 AM
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Registered User
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Location: On the Island
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BRAVO! |
"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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08-06-2011, 09:38 AM
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Location: Union,NJ
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Here is a shot from FS site
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08-06-2011, 09:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Maine
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Congratulations to the angler, that is a true feat! Gaining fame this fast has to make your head spin. Can't wait to read the story.
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08-06-2011, 10:05 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: People's Republic
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What a fish! Hope he gets the record. Congrats to him
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08-06-2011, 10:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: massachusetts
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What does that tape say - 50"?
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08-06-2011, 10:26 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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I was at a marina (not mine) this morning and I heard some of the most outrageous stories about this fish.Like:
All beat up. Was really caught by a dragger. Full of rebar and lead.
Personally, I believe it's the real deal and the guy has a history of big fish so why would he lie?
Last edited by piemma; 08-06-2011 at 10:34 AM..
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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08-06-2011, 11:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Personally, I believe it's the real deal and the guy has a history of big fish so why would he lie?
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Yea, Field and Stream article says he's caught 3 60's in the past year.
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08-06-2011, 12:08 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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Originally Posted by spence
Yea, Field and Stream article says he's caught 3 60's in the past year.
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Actually, it was four 60s and a 58. And those are just the fish he entered in the Cup. You're only allowed to have your 3 best fish stay on the board. He might have caught others that he either released, or that were entered and displaced. Also, according to the F&S article, he released one that he estimated to be well over 70 a few years back.
F&S appears to have talked to the guy personally (and probably paid for the rights to an "exclusive"), whereas OTW got their info yesterday from a CT beat writer who talked to other "credible sources" who may not have been all that credible. So, I put more stock in today's F&S article. The guy did go to the hospital, that's true, but it wasn't for a panic attack. He apparently took a fall out on the water and hurt his ribs, and went to have them checked out. This is from his own mouth. He left a couple of mob scenes to have a chance to catch his breath. He already stated what tackle he used--a heavy 6-1/2' St Croix tuna rod, a Quantum Cabo reel, and 50# Berkley Gorilla Braid. I fully expect him to submit the paperwork, based on his statement that "he'd be an ass" if he didn't. He didn't have to do that yesterday, and he doesn't have to do that today, or tomorrow or for almost another month. There's nothing more that he has to do.
If the guy fishes from a tin boat, he caught the fish inshore. He's not running out to federal waters south of the Block to poach in the EEZ in a #^&#^&#^&#^&ing tin boat. The redness on the fish is pretty normal. The fish lays in a box, and the blood pools in the low points of the body where it comes into contact with the box. It's what's called post-mortem lividity, and it's perfectly normal---it's not net rash. I have quite a few pictures of bass less than half that size with the same redness. There's nothing suspicious in my mind at this point. OTW did everyone an extreme dis-service yesterday by spreading some wild rumors, IMO.
As far as the 54" thing goes---anyone want to take a stab at the length of McReynolds' fish? I'll save you the trouble of looking it up--it was 53-1/2" long, but it had something like a 35" girth. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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08-06-2011, 07:10 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rizzo
What does that tape say - 50"?
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That tape isn't all the way on the ground yet. |
Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
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08-06-2011, 07:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Union,NJ
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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist
That tape isn't all the way on the ground yet.
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But why on earth would anybody take a pic this way?????? Common |
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08-06-2011, 07:19 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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Originally Posted by CowHunter
But why on earth would anybody take a pic this way?????? Common
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Rookie photog?
If you guys won't buy the F&S story then how about one by On The Water who actually went there in person, inspected and photographed the fish. Would that be enough?
Story and Photos: Potential World Record Striper |
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08-06-2011, 07:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: massachusetts
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The whole thing is an optical illusion. I heard the scale was recertified and the fish weighs 89.18 pounds now. IGFA world record and new line class record!  |
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08-06-2011, 10:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Who woulda thunk it- a 50" 82lb. striper.
I always figured a bass that heavy would go 65"+ .
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08-06-2011, 10:42 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Note to self: When I catch the new world record striper......let it go as fast as I can and tell no one.  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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08-07-2011, 01:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Westport, MA.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Note to self: When I catch the new world record striper......let it go as fast as I can and tell no one. |
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