If by chance that fish does get certified as the new WR, I doubt that WR would ever be beat. It took however many years to catch a fish bigger than the current WR and now it possibly gets beat by 3lbs. So much for all of our hopes of catching a WR if that one is accepted. For me catching a WR isn't my motivation but it was always in the back of my mind and a lot of others that our favorite little swimbait lake might have a 22lb 4oz fish swimming in it.

Did anybody read the comments on the ESPN article? I think three people from TX wrote comments, they all seemed upset that TX can't produce fish of that size.