Man, our DFG and the AZ angency sucks . The whole concept of them verifying that indeed the fish really weighed that much and the fact that you would have to wait for some state employee to show up at the lake - ya right. It is really sad that bass fisherman in general promote catch & release and the state promotes catch & kill in order to verify weight and ect. Look at what Crupi had done to him with his 22.01 ? lb fish - denied state record. I would have done the same thing as either of these guys - live with myself and let the fish go and let the state pull their head out of their _ _ _ . The state expects someone to wait for a DFG employee to show up, meanwhile your stressed out fish is in your livewell, - anyways. Don't get me wrong, with the livewells today, and the additives and all, fish will stay alive alot longer - but still - waiting for some person who works for an understaffed angecy to show up ? And some of those lakes out in Arizona, dude it would take forever; could you imagine if you were at Apache ?