New record smallie

[Muskie4L]

Kpin and myself cought two world record Bass last weekend also

Just ask him

I mean you can trust Kpin

[SteveH]

Oldest trick in the book (trust me, I use it all the time). Hold the fish way out to make it look bigger...Unless this guy truly has sausage fingers...

[HitmanHill]

Come on Fishhawkers, this is one hell of a nice fish!!! There is no way it could be anything less then 10lbs. I don't care if you hold that fish right up to the lens this is one large smallmouth. I don't think I would be eating it , but I know I sure would be bragging or boasting really loud about this catch and doing everything possible to make everyone know this was a "reel" catch.

[Rex Mundi]

5 lb Bass + 7 pounds of split shots over 10 years = one world record bass.

[wolfe]

"freakishly large hands..."

Along with most of you, I think that is one whopping good bass, and I do think it's worthy of the Nickel Club. But 12 lbs? Nooooo way.

I'm more disappointed that the big fish was kept for the table than the hoopla over a new record being a bunch doo-doo.

W.

[Spence Scout]

Keeping a 12lbs smallie would be like catching a dinosaur and and butchering it for family dinner! LOL

HitmanHill

Theres no way thats 10lbs smallie, id give it low 6lber.... maybe on the dot... Iget sotries like this everyday from customers who dont know how to weigh fish. "I caught a 11lbs smallmouth last night o na jitterbug, in fact ive caught 2 this week" lol it happens so often. visual scales dont work...

Point is he was just the inlucky fellow who got his story in the paper and now hes going to take mad heat for it.. We should all know as avid anglers that, that is not a 12lbs smallie.

[Wallyboss]

GOOOFFF!!!!

He forgot to tell us that the entrails he weighed was from the deer he shot last week, from the bucket seat he has mounted on the roof of his mobile home.

Nice bass but give me a friggin break!!!!!
Those 2 reporters I think were fired from The Enquirer last week !!!!

[Anton88]

poo poo .. and he cought it with a worm on a hook too !

[sparky]

Nice fish but I'd be surprised if it 7 pounds....

What really irks me about the whole thing for some reason is the 2 reporters should be ashamed of themselves..

So there ya have it....ya can't believe everything ya read in the newpaper...

To be fair, the Citizen story never endorses any claim about the size of this fish. It tells the guy's story, but note the question marks, the use of of the phrase "fish tale" in the overline, and the invitation to discuss the story online under the headline "Sound fishy to you?"
Read it again. The reporter is too polite to call the fisherman a liar or an idiot, but the whole story exudes skepticism.
Checking the Riversmallies.com braggin' gallery reveals that a 22-inch river smallie will weigh around six pounds. This one is heftier than most. The base of its tail is the thickest I've ever seen, but it doesn't have the huge pot-belly of a record-threatening bass. I'd give it eight pounds, which is huge for a smallmouth. No way it's 10, and no way in hell it's 12.
Fun story, though.

[RJ]

Nice fish but I'd be surprised if it 7 pounds....

What really irks me about the whole thing for some reason is the 2 reporters should be ashamed of themselves..

So there ya have it....ya can't believe everything ya read in the newpaper...

To be fair, the Citizen story never endorses any claim about the size of this fish. It tells the guy's story, but note the question marks, the use of of the phrase "fish tale" in the overline, and the invitation to discuss the story online under the headline "Sound fishy to you?"
Read it again. The reporter is too polite to call the fisherman a liar or an idiot, but the whole story exudes skepticism.
Checking the Riversmallies.com braggin' gallery reveals that a 22-inch river smallie will weigh around six pounds. This one is heftier than most. The base of its tail is the thickest I've ever seen, but it doesn't have the huge pot-belly of a record-threatening bass. I'd give it eight pounds, which is huge for a smallmouth. No way it's 10, and no way in hell it's 12.
Fun story, though.

So the whole point of printing the story was to backhandly call the guy a liar?....and on the front page of Eastern Ontario's most read newspaper.....it's ludicrous to think that anyone that has ever fished in their life to think that fish is 12 pounds.....I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the guy.....

[Trophymuskie]

If that smallmouth is 12 pounds then the largemouth mounted on my wall must be over 15 pounds.

Must be something in the Arnprior waters that inflates the fish.

[SteveO]

Wow - it was really on the front page! You're kidding! I only read it on-line.

I should not suggest this without putting the effort in myself, but a letter to the editor would be in order. I think they'll be getting a few...

[YakAttack]

It was a 5lbs bass. Big Deal, There's tons of them around.

It is my ambition to be as non-plussed about a 5-lb smallmouth. Maybe after I catch my share of the tons

If I wasn't out of town this weekend I'd see if there are more numbers on the water than usual. Too bad I couldn't take Bart Simpons ar$e to show them all

[sparky]

No, RJ, the point of the story was to entertain the paper's readers with a picture and story of an exceptionally large fish -- which this most certainly was. The bizarre tale of fileting, re-assembling, entrails-weighing and weight-guessing, and the ludicrous claim of a world record just add to the enterainment value. On a slow midsummer news day, on that front page, which story do you think people are talking about? Right, it would be the one we're talking about right here. There'll always be another corporate piracy story, another government scandal, another wartime atrocity. But an eight-pound smallie is a genuine rarity, even if it's nowhere near a world record.

[slop]

C'mon now folks!...yer all just jealous that you did'nt catch that 12 pounder