don't confuse confidence with cockiness or arrogance. dude is a sick angler. i think it's cool that he knows he can go out and break that record. very few people stateside even knew about kurita until his latest catch. that alone tells me that he isn't the type of guy to hype himself up.

im not hating?

but openly stating how hes gonna break it again just seems direspectful to other anglers like in california who try really hard and dedicate their lives to breakig it

maybe itd be nice to see him act thankful for the catch, instead of just brushing it off as nothing

i didnt attack you, so i dont understand why you had to take so personally.. we're all intitled to our own opinions.

If I fish in a body of water that holds 25lb plus bass I would be pretty confident myself. I'm not mad at the guy. Having skill fishing a big bass lake is a good thing in my book.


Reggie

The guy doesn't speak english so his answers may be a bit lost in translation. In any case Bass are our Drum here. So noone really fishes for them so you can imagine how big Bass can get if noone pounds the lakes like we do here.

Go Army is correct. Bass there are like rough fish here.. sorry rough fisherman...no disrespect inteded, but if someone kills a carp, people dont go nuts like they do if someone kills a big bass. Also we had a California angler release a 25#er because it was caught outside the mouth with a jig,and he didnt want to taint this pristeen record. As far as bigger fish have gotten away on kurita... isnt it always the big one that gets away?... i dont buy it. I think the guy is probably a very good angler and deserves respect for tying freshwater fishing's most hallowed record but......be humble and show some respect for george perry and the mark itself.Confidence is good, arrogance is not and this feels like arrogance to me.If he does indeed go out with an artificial bait and catches a bigger I fish, I will face the music, but I thinks hes full of saki.... my two

sorry, but this guy has to be riding a high like no other considering how i feel for a while after catching a puny 10 pound fish. i'd think you'd have to excuse him for feeling a little cocky at the moment. i don't know if you read the bassmasters story or not but the guy caught a 9 pounder while fishing with the guy that interviewed him. how many of us could go out and on command catch a 9 pound fish even on fork or falcon? this guy must be on some really nice fish. i also have to think really how much respect for the record would most of us have if it stood in japan for the last 78 years?

Bass Fishing in Japan is pretty big. I am guessing he is either a cut above or has just spent time on the water in a fishery with very large fish. I would be surprised if he does not now have much more competition than he did before "the catch".

I think those same things everytime I go out, just no jouralist there to quote me.

99 people out of a 100 that caught a world record bass would be a little cocky and more power to them. They did it, I didn't.

I'd be arrogant and cocky too. He has every right to want to catch another world record. That way he has the world record for live bait and artificial. Then he can be SUPER cocky and arrogant and love every bit of seeing how jealous every one else all over the world is.

Too bad it's gonna be me that breaks the record not him.

Frankly, I could care less about anglers in California dedicating their lives trying to break his record, and he shouldn't either. It doesn't make his pursuit any less important. Why do you get the impression he is being disrespectful at all??? What about all the anglers that work their entire lives just to have the free time to go fishing??? They don't have the luxury of "dedicating their lives" to catching a world record. They would love to just catch a personal best.



Alright, man, I think some people will just not get it. Why should he have to show additional respect to George Perry??? To me, he shows respect by not contesting his fish's weight, which clearly did break Perry's record, and by continuing to pursue the next record fish. He pays homage to anglers of the past by dutifully waking early and beginning his fishing day, just like so many other anglers in so many other places.

[quote=Cameron T.]thats complete cockyness.. even if he is able to get a thrity lber to bite.. i give him a 10% chance of of hoooking and landing it
+1

Sounds to me like this fellow knows where some bigger fish are. He might pull it off, who knows. Someone else might also.
Another guy posted about the Dixon Lake 25 lb bass that was foul hooked. The guy didn't throw him back "because" he didn't want to "taint" the recordbooks with a fowl hooked fish, The reason was, IGFA wouldn't recognize it as a world record because the rules say that the state game laws apply when a fish is caught. In this case, California does not recognize foul hooked fish. Had that Bass been "foul"hooked in Texas, he'd still be holding the record. Kurita better step it up, Japan ain't the only place where monsters roam. This ought to be a good year.

must be a slow day at work lol he reminds me of lots of hot shots i know right here in e tx lol

the problem with this statement is the guy self confessed on the hook outside the mouth, that is integrity.