[aruanan]

But most fish stories aren't covered in the news with photographs only to be easily refuted.

Compare his ~82 pound fish with the current record fish. Note the size of the pectoral fin of each fish with respect to the girth of each and you'll see his fish is not almost 82 pounds. It looks considerably smaller than the record fish.

But most fish stories aren't covered in the news with photographs only to be easily refuted. Your 15 minutes of fame will turn into a lifetime of ridicule.

Look at everything in the news with plenty of photographs and videos and sound recordings of folks like Clinton and Barry Obama and see that, to this point, their lies have only benefited them. This isn't lost on the populace, even the fish-catching populace.

[Flag_This]

"Note the size of the pectoral fin of each fish with respect to the girth of each and you'll see his fish is not almost 82 pounds."

Look at the area above the eye on both fish. Either the new fish has been lobotomized, or else the camera is low and the fish is angling back - so you are not seeing a large portion of the top of the new fish.

If the current record-holding fish is 54" then judging by the photo, the guy who caught it is about 5' 2."

Photography can mess with perspective and spatial relations - heck, that's how they shot half of the hobbit / human scenes in Lord of the Rings.

Here's another photo of the fish and the fisherman. The guy who caught it is 6' 4" and 275 lbs: