Just goes to show you ignorant and irrelevant the IGFA is to the bass fishing contingency nationwide. Get with the times and talk to someone who has caught a bass in the last ten years IGFA(rules me out though..LOL) Conventional bass tackle has made a few innovations in the past decade. I'm sure the embedded "gang-hook" is in the books to protect fish from un-sporting advances, but anyone can tell you that an embedded treble hook equals 2 possible bass-catching points as opposed to the 3 points of the free-swining treble. Is this new math? I took Calculus in college, yet I can't see how 2 hookpoints per hook(even in frogs) is an un-fair advantage as opposed to the 3 hookpoints of a hanging treble. I guess Pro-Rig Ospreys are going on the IGFA Black List Super Sale. Wake me up when the world stops spinning backwards.

F%$K the IGFA and $500 milion world record bass. If Fish Chris catches a 23 pounder on a (omigod oversized) 5/0 hook, it's still the record to me. If some one else catches it on some after-hour(poaching times to the law-abiding) mission, it's still the record to me. If some one catches a ?22-8? and weighs it on a 1/2 pound increment Boga Grip scale, and releases it with some doubtful measurements and grainy photos, well that's where we're at now. All you gotta know about Boga Grip is that Roland Martin pimps it! I trust it as much as I do my 401K manager or that punk kid walking my 12 year old daughter home from school!