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Mark Hodson
Guest
The new Roach record got me thinking and I wondered what everyone thought might happen if...
An angler caught a record fish of any species and had it properly weighed, varified and photographed and then publicised the capture either through the weeklies or the net.
The said angler then decides not to claim the record (out of some belief or principle)
Would that fish then become an unnofficial record, when people thought or talked of that species record surely the largest authenticated fish would sit at the top of the list making the current listings defunct.
If a few anglers did this over the course of a couple of seasons could they in effect destroy the current system and make its very existance meaningless ?
Just a thought.
An angler caught a record fish of any species and had it properly weighed, varified and photographed and then publicised the capture either through the weeklies or the net.
The said angler then decides not to claim the record (out of some belief or principle)
Would that fish then become an unnofficial record, when people thought or talked of that species record surely the largest authenticated fish would sit at the top of the list making the current listings defunct.
If a few anglers did this over the course of a couple of seasons could they in effect destroy the current system and make its very existance meaningless ?
Just a thought.