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"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:

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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.

That's why I used elements of the photograph that weren't affected by perspective and spatial relations, such as the hand that was at the same distance from the camera as the fish and the pectoral fin width to body height. The fish in the porch photo is not rotated to make its profile narrower because the caudal fins are clearly evident in both. The head in the porch photo is much longer than in the orange shirt photo. This would have nothing to do with perspective because the shingles on the house even farther to the left of the head are not elongated. Also, notice that the markings on the pectoral fins and the belly are different between the two photos.