Bruce, I never EVER doubted that your fish weren't huge, it's just that I had never seen many references where length/weight was attributed to them, other than knowing that you caught one over 3# at RM. Seeing that 3.1# BG on a ruler makes it look even bigger (at least to me) than seeing it in a picture without anything to scale it to. I've never seen a BG larger than 11" much less one that is 14" long!!!

What was the RW on that 17" LMB?

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