Paul caught the fish on a baby bass pattern AC plug. It was legal and released live and well. BLESS THE MAN!
He has caught so much flack for that catch he has said he wishes, on one level, that he never had caught it.
I wish I had got to know him better. I was just getting to know him when I was let go from a tackle shop I was working at, at the time.
Paul is an excellent fisherman and anyone talking trash about him is full of XXXX and doesn't know his @$$ from a hole in the ground and is just spreading their sour grapes.

Chris

This is an edit: I bow to Paul Duclos. Mike is great but PAUL IS THE MAN! HE CAUGHT THE WORLD RECORD AND RELEASED IT.