Additionally, measuring a 112 lb. fish requires sturdily supporting the scale at a height higher than the fish is long, and then waiting until the fish stops flopping around. This is not easy for a 112 lb. fish. The story would be far more complete and feasible if it described how the fish was weighed.
Dude listen, when I was actively fishing I had more than one set of scales in my boat. One for bass and crappie and another one for the big ones. You evidently haven’t ever hung around a bunch of river rats or die hard country fisherman folks. As I said in an earlier post, that fish will probably not make it after it was returned to the water. The weight of the fish out of water does terrible damage to the heart and other organs. It might swim off but chances are it will die within a few days. As far as the story was written, it’s evident it wasn’t written by a fisherman.