NEPTUNE - This is a fish tale about the fluke that didn't get away and the record that did.
A Neptune nurse caught the world's largest summer flounder by rod and reel off the Monmouth County coast last month.
However, the International Game Fish Association disqualified the 24.3-pound catch because Monica Oswald said she had temporarily rested her pole on the rail of her boat.
That violates IGFA rules.
It took Oswald 20 minutes to reel in the 38.2 inch doormat. She took it to an IGFA
certified weigh station and stuck it in a cooler in her garage. There it was partially eaten, most likely by a raccoon.
Oswald passed a lie-detector test about the fish.
However, IGFA world records coordinator Rebecca Wright tells The Star Ledger of Newark rules are rules. Wright says it's sad because everything else with the catch was fine.
The record of 22.7 pounds, caught by a Long Island charter captain in 1975, stands
A Neptune nurse caught the world's largest summer flounder by rod and reel off the Monmouth County coast last month.
However, the International Game Fish Association disqualified the 24.3-pound catch because Monica Oswald said she had temporarily rested her pole on the rail of her boat.
That violates IGFA rules.
It took Oswald 20 minutes to reel in the 38.2 inch doormat. She took it to an IGFA
certified weigh station and stuck it in a cooler in her garage. There it was partially eaten, most likely by a raccoon.
Oswald passed a lie-detector test about the fish.
However, IGFA world records coordinator Rebecca Wright tells The Star Ledger of Newark rules are rules. Wright says it's sad because everything else with the catch was fine.
The record of 22.7 pounds, caught by a Long Island charter captain in 1975, stands