WA smallie record is safe

[Fish-N-Machine]

I heard on the radio earlier today (91.5fm opb/npr) that the fish that was caught awhile back by the guy from Kennewick was filled with lead, and won't be recignized as the new state record. :smash:

[Fish-N-Machine]

Here's part of an article that I found with a quick google search:



Yakima Herald-Republic


* Finally, state wildlife enforcement officials were told — by individuals who will remainymous here at their request and that of the department — that Kenyon had inserted 2<00BC> pounds eight into the fish before he had it weighed the second time.

By this time, Kenyon had already taken his big bass to have it mounted, so it was no longer available for testing. (The taxidermist told department officials he had found no evidence of distortion that added weights might cause.)

Enforcement officials began to turn the heat up on Kenyon, who, in lengthy questioning by two department officers, stuck by his story.


Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company

[ExBassGuide]

I was at silver a few years back when this guy walks by me on the dock with a DEAD 6 pound bass (what I thought was 6lb)in a plastic bag. He just got out of a rental boat with out a trolling motor. A few minutes later he walked back to the boat. The resort yelled that the bass was over 10 pounds and a new lake record. So I looked the bass over as he passed me and the gut on the bass was bigger than normal.
I said no way! but the people at the resort said they placed the bass on the scale and it was 10lb 5oz. I said
I still do not believe that the bass was that big. So the operators at the resort checked the scale and it was DEAD on. All I could say is something is fishy. Well a couple weeks later the people at the resort told me the rest of the story, He took the bass to a certified scale at the local store when surprise a weight fell out of the basses mouth. From what his friend said he got the bass the week before from Sacagawea lake in Longview. That bass was slimy but that guy was allot more slimy than a fish could ever be!Kenyon is going to go a long time before he ever can live this one down!
Roger

[Dave Smith]

Man, I hate it when I'm right. (I just always wanted to say that- he he.)

[Super Fluke]

:dance: :yay:

[1bigfish]

I don't think there was one person here who thought the fish was legitimate. Just glad to see the state is not going to alow it. :noway:

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Hope they take his fishing licence away for wasting such a nice fish for no reason. :mad:

[tnj8222]

gotta give it to dave. he did call it!

[Basscaster]

It sucks, but you have to be super skeptical these days. People will do anything for some time in the spotlight. A dude got caught cheating in a CLUB (that's right a freakin' club tourney) tournament in the Roseburg club a couple years ago. He had built a secret livewell in his boat and caught some big fish over the couple weeks before and kept them alive in a tub or something at his house and brought them to the tournament and weighed them in. He was prosecuted for it. If this Kenyon guy did try to do what they say, he should be prosecuted as well. Good luck going pro now dude, hope it was worth it.

[raptorschild]

Haha. this cracks me up about the kid wanting to go pro. Me thinks that may have been tongue in cheek. But if he was serious, he just shot himself in the face.

Pretty apparent after Dave posted the measures of Superflukes bass. Unless the bass had crazy muscle density genes, there was no way.

I personally would like to meet the game officials that were going to let this stand! Complete idiots. I think some people were guesssing how much the bass weighed after the pic was posted, and just by looking at the picture, some people called it, about 7 pounds maybe.

Those game officials are the ones who should be prosecuted.

[Dave Smith]

I personally would like to meet the game officials that were going to let this stand! Complete idiots. Those game officials are the ones who should be prosecuted.

:smash: :jester: :jester:

[O Tshawytcha]

Don't forget the kid in Oregon that let the state record Bass go!!

That helps restore the balance...

GRIFF

[Dave Smith]

Onchorhinkus: That fish wasn't a record, either. It's easy to say it was a record as you're quickly getting it back in the water- he he.