jeffbare
08-24-2011, 08:35 AM
A seasoned angler caught a potentially record-breaking striped bass on an evening outing in Long Island Sound. Greg Myerson, 43, of North Branford, Connecticut, was drifting with live eels on August 4, when the big fish hit. Myerson, an accomplished fisherman who won Angler of the Year in the 2010 Striper Cup competition, brought the fish to Jack's Shoreline Bait and Tackle in Westbrook to be weighed the next morning—nearly 12 hours after the catch—and tipped the scales at 81.88 pounds. Myerson submitted his paperwork and materials to the International Game Fish Association for review and possible certification of the record.
IGFA officials confirmed they received the application for the record, along with additional unsolicited testimony. "It's going through the same process that every application goes through," says Jack Vitek, World Record Coordinator for the IGFA. "Certainly it's a historical record, and because of that we have been receiving a lot of different feedback from concerned anglers. However, being the international authority on record keeping, we assure them that every record that comes in here receives a 110-percent review." The current All Tackle Striped Bass Record is held by Albert McReynolds for a 78 lb., 8 oz. fish caught off Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 21, 1982.
IGFA officials confirmed they received the application for the record, along with additional unsolicited testimony. "It's going through the same process that every application goes through," says Jack Vitek, World Record Coordinator for the IGFA. "Certainly it's a historical record, and because of that we have been receiving a lot of different feedback from concerned anglers. However, being the international authority on record keeping, we assure them that every record that comes in here receives a 110-percent review." The current All Tackle Striped Bass Record is held by Albert McReynolds for a 78 lb., 8 oz. fish caught off Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 21, 1982.