Whoa, whoa, whoa! Are you guys really claiming to be omnipotent enough to call someone a liar over something that happened 70+ years ago? What's your take on Crispus Attucks? Where is the romantic idea of not speaking ill of the dead? Didn't Perry earn the right to be honored for an achievement rather than vilified for a claim you all find far-fetched? I'm sure you'd all sing a different tune if Mike Long claimed the record with the same dimensions and lack of physical evidence. Remember, all these weight formulas are only theories. Just check out the varying proportions and weights of your friends and co-workers as an example.

Answer this, why would Perry claim to catch such a large specimen, when the world record weight was much less than his catch. Would 19 lbs.(still a record at the time) have been more palatable to you? Why would he boost the weight? I'm sure he'd laugh his ass off knowing that we all are talking about this. He was trying to feed his family during one of the toughest periods in American history, and I'm not sure that we all don't owe him a debt for the sportsman he was. One article I read talked about how he took kids from the neighborhood fishing with him, who knows maybe one of them was Bill Dances' father.

Lifting Bob Crupi over your shoulders is also funny as hell to me. Ever here about the one where you drop oil filters(illegal pollution) on your spots when you leave just to ruin it for the next guy? Or the one about taking large waterdogs and covering them in glue and silver glitter(also illegal) to make them look like trout?

Don't even get me started about Doug Hannons' credibility. I did an investigative reporter purchase of his Snake baits last year. Talk about a Hoax.