I just moved back to Texas in November from Washington State. There was a guide on the Columbia River who caught a huge Walleye. He pulled a brand new scale out of the package and weighed the fish and was shocked that the scale said 11.5. In order to preserve the fishery, he then released the fish. About an hour later another guide pulled up next to him to show him this huge walleye he had landed. He said the fish weighed over 20 lbs and he pulled it out to show it off. The first guide looked at it and immediately knew his fish was bigger. He asked if he could weigh the fish on his scale and when he did so the scale read around 9.3. Just then he realized that the factory setting was in KG. Doing the math, his walleye weighed over 25lbs and would have been a new WORLD RECORD. The story was featured in both Outdoor Life and Washington Fish & Game.

At least he's still motivated to fish those waters knowing there's a World Record swimming around.

holy mackeral