All talk of world record rules and robotic lures makes me wonder...

What if I was fishing at a private lake where only members who lived around the lake could fish? But what if I was a guest that day..

What if the private lake rules said you could only cast to within 15 feet of docks? What if I was casting 16 feet away...

What if the bass was a bed fish but I was casting from a place where I couldn't see the bass? What if I felt the fish bite and set the hook but it came in hooked outside the mouth...

What if I had set up an aqua view near the bed? What if had a friend tell me when to set the hook..

What if I was using a robotic lure? What if there was no DFG rule about robotic lures but they made one after the fact...

What if I used a remote control boat to bring my lure over the bass? What if I wasn't operating that boat...

What if someone just caught it cleanly, on video, from cast to finish. Has 'wolf' been cried too many times now?

I happen to think there's a jinx here. Like bringing a banana in the boat. It's not the curse of the Mummy, it's the Curse of Super Bessie!

Tanuki instead of tiger? No growth hormone required.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki

I learned in a Benson the carp article recently that Benson was named Benson because of a hole in his fin that looked like a cigarette burn. A-la Benson & Hedges.

Maybe the next big bass I catch, I'll name it Marlboro.

If I ever grow a world record bass in my private pond, I'll name it Macanudo and charge other people $500 for a chance to catch it. The legions of rednecks fighting for a chance at glory will make her famous, until the day she succumbs to a fatal cocktail of megastrike, tiger nuts and propofol.

Can I borrow some artificial growth hormones?