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Article: Freshwater fish records can be just fish tales
- Article from:
- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- April 19, 2009
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If I learned anything as a daily newspaper editor, it was this:
Be wary of superlatives in print. They can come back to haunt you.
That's right, be skeptical and cast a scrutinizing eye at anything
or anybody who claims to have lived the longest, found the oldest
fossil, raised the tastiest tomato, or caught the biggest fish.
Especially the biggest fish!
Fish records, especially Maine freshwater fish records, are as
slippery as a smelt.
Case in point. This winter, a Maine ice fisherman, Jeff Paquette,
caught a 3-pound, 2-ounce white perch at Ellis Pond in Freedom. The
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, in a press
release, reported that Paquette's perch was a new state record. ...