If this guy wasn't a professional angler y'all would be crucifying him for not having his son in a life jacket. Great fish, obviously real but don't risk your kids safety. Hell hes already panic stricken.

That is freaking awesome. Congrats

Powerpoles are down so the boat is anchored. Enough already. Awesome catch for that old lake.

Maybe he is up against a shallow dock or shoreline. It is Tawakoni after all and they very well could be in 1' of water. What he does for a living has zero bearing on any of it to me. Its a great fish and a great memory with his family. Thats as deep as I look into it all.

Take the tin foil cap off he has a video of the fish on his Facebook page

Nicely put Steez

That blue blob is livewell additive. Either poured in while the fish was in the well or it was not dissolved on the bottom and it made contact with the fish...smh

Amazing fish for any lake this time of year, especially Twok. Grats to the anglers! Little boys face cracks me up haha

Oh jeez..... it can�t be real if you catch a 14 lber with a clean shirt and your teeth don�t show when you smile, wow!

Let�s squash this now. I was there when the photos were taken and at no time was my nephews life in danger. The boat was pulled up on a boat ramp and poles were down as you can see in the bottom left of the photo. He jumped in the boat from dry concrete along with a couple other people just to see the fish and photo bomb. And at no time did the boat move with him in it. As for the photo looking to clean, you know those crazy Russians are rigging everything these days. Also have a video of the release from later on that evening but have a offer of a autographed Hillary Clinton campaign shirt and a unopened box of Tide pods not to post it. And this is the most damn explaning I�ve had to do in a long time. Thanks to everyone else that liked it.

Thanks for the explanation big worm. Glad to see the little guy wasn't in danger , and great fish!

Amen. Awesome fish for Tawakoni or any other lake for that matter

I want GPS location..LOL Great fish..

Thanks for posting that D' otherwise we might not ever have known. What an awesome fish and the kid is a bonus. Good job all three.

Wow, That's a real SHARELUNKER

First, congrats on a huge fish of a lifetime.


Couldn�t disagree more Steez.

In this case there was no proof this child was ever in danger nor laws broken. As I mentioned in my post it was possible the boat was anchored, beached or tied up to a dock.

But if we do ever witness a child being put into danger by an idiot parent, I believe it is our obligation to speak up for the kid.

This obviously isn�t the case in this situation.

Also, perhaps some that brought it up were simply trying to help prevent a dad from getting a citation. God forbid we try to educate anyone on rules and regulations. I personally wasn�t aware of the stupid �underway� definition until recently. My kids now wear autoinflates when motor is not runnng, and standard PFDs when motor is running.