Steven Rinella

No.

We're going to run with it.

Boss of all fishing records, Jason Schratweiser, who is the president of the IGFA, or International Game Fish Association.

So if you're sitting at home wondering why that matters or what that means,

We're going to talk about it, but one of the ways to connect it is when you hear of someone saying they have a new line class record or they caught a record, this or a record that you guys are the record holders.

Yeah.

And you guys traditionally were saltwater.

What, what part of, cause you know, field and stream is a weird deal where all these different entities own all these different rights to the name.

Right.

So if Field and Stream had the record, what portion of Field and Stream held freshwater records?

1880 something in new jersey oh so that must have been like field and stream the magazine in the magazine you know if you go into some store and you see like a field and stream canoe yeah you know i mean exactly they just they've sold off over the years all these different rights to the name and so i didn't know if where the fact i didn't know that even had freshwater records yeah so we took it over from field and stream they like handed you the papers they said here

So where do the records live?

I mean, a lot of this stuff probably hasn't been digitized.

You know, I feel like a lot of, a lot of listeners are, are going to be, I don't mean this as a, I don't mean this as an insult to you guys, but a lot of our listeners are going to be more aware of Boone and Crockett.

Sure.

100%.

Than they would be of IGFA.

And I want to ask you a question, but I want to set up kind of like how, why Boone and Crockett exists, right?

So Boone and Crockett began and remains a conservation organization.

As part of their conservation work a long time ago, they wanted to have a way of sort of how do you measure the health of herds?