Still have my doubts.
I measured the fish on the screen at 7.5cm, and the distance from the bloke\'s shoulder to the inner bend of his elbow at 2.5cm.
Granted the perspective might be a bit of a problem, but judging by the (lack of) bend of the fish below his lower supporting hand, it can\'t be too far off being vertical, and looks about the same as the angle of his upper arm. In any case it should be balanced against the distortion caused by the fish being nearer to the camera.
Try measuring the distance from the top of your shoulder to elbow.
Unless he\'s built like a gorilla - which might explain how he holds the thing up with so little effort - I can\'t see the fish as being much bigger than 36\" snout to fork of tail.
According to what I managed to pick up on the web, the longest recorded bass from UK waters as given in Don Kelly\'s book, was 36\" and weighed in at 17 and quarter pounds. Two other fish of around 33\" weighed about the same.
So I\'d guess that 20lb was about tops for that fish.
Compare it to the striped bass shown on http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=1228
That was given as weighing 35lb, a with a length of 47\".
But whatever it weighed, it\'s still a nice fish, and I\'d love to have caught it myself.
