Steven Rinella

How often do you guys find a record that you later learn to be fraudulent or illegitimate?

Like I remember, and it doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to be crookedness.

Like I remember, and I can't remember if this is IGFA or a state thing.

I don't remember what state it was, but there had been this longstanding, there's this longstanding channel cat record.

And there's an old photo of this guy standing there with a channel cat.

Well, someone, some brilliant person a couple of years ago had the idea, why not count the rays on its fins?

which you could see in the image was a blue cat.

It was a blue cat.

Yeah.

So all along the state record channel cat was just cause a guy caught it and said it was a channel cat.

And then only later did someone go like, you know, one, two, three, four, five.

I can't remember what the numbers are.

Well, like one is like eight to nine fins and one is 12 to 14 fins or something like that.

And some other indicators and like, we had it all wrong.

Um, and then it was kind of funny because the race started all over again.

And so people were breaking channel cat records monthly or whatever, because they had to build it back up.

Like a guy comes in, he's got a four pounder.

That's the record five pounder.

And then it built back up to some, you know, realistically hits that plateau.

Yeah.