And I've caught many fish on an A rig that ended up with 2 or 3 hooks in them outside their mouth....doesn't mean anything

Wow the jealousy on this thread is amazing. . Congrats to Jason on a fish of a lifetime. and some of you need to grow up.

The guy has been out there for weeks and weeks, and this is the first SAL he’s caught. You’d think if it was easy to just go snag giants with an A-rig and FFS, he’d have several more SALs under his belt. If you’ve been out there, you’d know you see several giants a day. I highly doubt Jason intentionally snagged this fish, if in fact it was snagged. But also, if you’ve used an a-rig at all, you’d know fish blow through them all the time and never get a hook. Just a nature of the beast when throwing the rig. Not defending the guy, just defending the style of fishing.

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Genuine American Bad@zz. I’m sure this will help boost his business

All these big fish being caught have me excited... working on a canoe with motor, with i pilot, with ff sonar... going to get my sharelunker next year.. mark it down! Can't wait to enjoy all the hate!

Just wait until some walleye guys from up north come down here and start throwing cast nets at the giants lol

Damn, some of you guys need to go see your therapist. Stalking people is not healthy.

I have seen some south of the border types chunking castnets on bedding fish in the N Texas area

Jason conn was the "good" guide until he caught this fish. Lmao.
It Is wild!

I tried snagging a carp last year with a rattle trap in
a foot water. Several times. Maybe I just suck.

He's no Mike Long

Im curious why wasn't all of these massive fish being caught before ff sonar has it really upped the game that much?

I can't blame him, and personally I see his point. Everyone is a bad mofo on the internet. He's just requesting a face to face discussion.
I'd fish with him as long as I got to catch a few.

Awesome fish by the way. Congrats!

You can see his point, you can defend him, but none of it is warranted. The fish came to the boat hooked OR snagged (gasp, did he really just say that??? Well yes, the definition of snag would be “not hooked where it’s supposed to be) in the back. Guys will sit here and say “well it happens with that lure”. Well yeah, we all have said that, even the “claimed to be haters”. IT HAPPENS WITH THAT LURE!!!! (Quit throwing it then, must be why the professional trails don’t allow it, it’s nothing but controversial).


Let me type it where some might understand it. IF THAT FISH HAD NOT BEEN HOOKED IN THE BACK, WHEN IT CAME TO THE NET, IT WAS NOT ENDING UP IN HIS NET; BECAUSE AT THAT TIME THERE WAS NO HOOK IN IT’S MOUTH. IT WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN ANOTHER, “THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY”.

Nobody said he intentionally snagged it, we said it was hooked in the back, when it came to the boat. By definition of the current State Law inTexas, it’s a foul hooked fish. A foul hooked fish is one that’s not hooked in the mouth. We all apologize that the truth and reality of the situation makes some people upset, Jack Nicholson in “A few good men” said it properly, apparently “you can’t handle the truth”.


And to the ones who claim it’s “toxicity on the forum”, it’s other forums talking about it as well. There is more than 1 fishing forum in America.

So…you’re saying he shouldn’t eat it?

I don't get what everyone is arguing about. Was he supposed to immediately chunk it back into the lake and say “my bad”? Was he not supposed to share the catch with others in social media? Why is everyone mad? I wanna be mad too…what am I supposed to get mad about?


Oh! I get it. He wasn’t supposed to donate it to SAL. We shouldn’t benefit from the fishes offspring in other lakes! I get it now. Duh.