Well I guess we will never know if the Perry fish was the record or not. Right now it stands to be and there is nothing we can do about it. If you ask me we have to let the current record stand and just go out and fish hard and fish longer and fish as often as you can, because in my opinion one of us swimbait trophy hunters here in CA will break that record before 2010. With all the technology going into swimbaits these days its only a matter of time before we have a new KING.