10-15-2007, 09:08 AM
I have seen those two guys somewhere before, cant place my finger on where...
sertainly a wopper of a fish, but something aint quite right with that fishes eye....
I never seen a carp with an up turned mouth before either... dosnt mean it is not real, just weird, even for a bugle mouth...
[size 1]I am going to go with LlindeX on this one, in my opinion, I think it is a fraud.... When the world record was in europ was around 86lbs, to have one turn up three times the record is a bit hard to swallow, even if it was an entirely different species....[/size]
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[size 1]Looking at a pic of a 42 pounder I caught, I also noticed that with the mamoth carp, a major fin didnt seem to make it in to the picture... with that fin missing and the wrong mouth along with the misplaced eye and deformity of the eye, I am going to say it is a fake...[/size]
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sertainly a wopper of a fish, but something aint quite right with that fishes eye....
I never seen a carp with an up turned mouth before either... dosnt mean it is not real, just weird, even for a bugle mouth...
[size 1]I am going to go with LlindeX on this one, in my opinion, I think it is a fraud.... When the world record was in europ was around 86lbs, to have one turn up three times the record is a bit hard to swallow, even if it was an entirely different species....[/size]
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[size 1]Looking at a pic of a 42 pounder I caught, I also noticed that with the mamoth carp, a major fin didnt seem to make it in to the picture... with that fin missing and the wrong mouth along with the misplaced eye and deformity of the eye, I am going to say it is a fake...[/size]
[size 1][/size] [center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/6675/ppuser/89"]
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