I feel good, awesome, in fact. I'm just stoked to see a fish that big.

220

I feel it's the right way. I want the record of George Perry (22-4) to still stand. I don't want this (foul-hooked bass) to be a record, and I want to keep pursuing it with Jed and Mike, and I want everybody else to keep pursuing it.

193

We don't want to go out breaking the record with so many people doubting it. We want it to be 100 percent -- or more realistically 90 percent -- being behind it with no controversy. We plan to be back with a world-record bass everyone will get behind.

163

I admit it was foul-hooked, so I said let's just weigh it and let it go.

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