k reason i say hoax is he is holding it like its 5lbs on his finger tips

Photoshop

How come he only has 3 fingers on each hand?????

That’s a scam for sure, that would bust yer back holding it up for it’s picture and the bloke’s face doesn’t look as if he’s just got a potential record, ban him and all his fake pics!

Yeah, the three finger thing is really odd.

If it was photoshop you’d have thought he’d put more fingers on himself, ban him and his 3 fingers! Unless he’s just a really clumsy fisherman that doesn’t get his fingers out of the way of Pike jaws quick enough!

I heard that this fish was caught on rainy lake by one of Clives cousins…..

Another FAKE!!

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Hi all,

I’m the one that has that photo hosted on my flickr account. First, no one was claiming this was a world record. It is not my photo if you go to the photo page and read clearly it states - “Large northern pike caught in the netherlands”

I don’t know what can be more clear than that. About 2 years ago, an online news article out of the Netherlands had an article about a recent catch. This is the photo that ran in that paper. I have preserved it here for fun of seeing it. There is nothing to suggest this is photoshopped. There were no details that I could read or understand that said what it was. But there never was a mention of world record or anything like that.

Hey Carl, thanks for the info. I know it doesnt say that it is a world record, but if it is a legitimate photo, it very well could be - its huge!!

Whether that fish is real or a fake, it IS one impressive picture. If the guy catches Pike that size, that would probably explain why he is missing some fingers.

The picture is real. This pike is 120cm and weighs 36lbs. The official Dutch record is a 138cm pike weighing almost 40 lbs. There’s more pictures of this fishing team at http://www.metersnoeken.nl. Click on the right on “120+ van Team Metersnoeken” to see this picture and more. Also has pictures of pike caught in Canada and Sweden.

I’m in no way affiliated with these guys, just saw this post and remembered I saw this photo before :-)

I often fish for pike here: http://www.roofvisser.nl/vissers/chris-van-gellekom/05-02-2006-chris-van-gellekom-aalsmeer-snoek-118cm.html

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That is a helluva pike. Maybe not a world record, but who cares. As for photoshopping it… What fisherman spends all his time at his computer photoshopping things? As for they way he’s holding it… these are 30-50lbs fish… any adult should be able to hold up 30-50lbs.

The thing with this pike that I’m still having trouble with is not so much the three finger thing, but rather the girth of the fish. I’ve seen lots of pike up close and personal as well as photos of some monster pike but none had that type of girth.
It would seem to me that if you compare the size of that pike relative to the man holding it that pike should weight 100 lbs because it’s at least half the size of the guy. The fish’s head is bigger than his and the rest of the fish is at least as large as the man’s torso.
I remain skeptical.

Just when i thought the subject had finished, someone has brought it back up again, this has got to be the most talked about picture yet!…I bet the poor bloke who sent the pic in wishes he hadn’t bothered!…Pike eh?…They’re nothing but trouble!

Hi all,
I am Dick van Hattem. The men who caught this wonderfull pike in the Netherlands.
The pike was actualy 120 cm long, weight exactly 16.5 kilo’s and was caught on a death perch on 10 meter deep water on 27 december 2000.

But now…. the photo was shopped for fun. I had a reading for a fishingclub and this was the last picture of the reading I had for 100 quest. Name of the picture…. I have a dream….. Everybode was laughing. Really funny, never claimed the world record. Because it is not by far.

http://www.metersnoeken.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=13&Itemid=48 here you can find the original picture. Only the back ground was shopped because I did not want to tell every body where this pike was swimming.

Last winter I caught a even more big pike.
That one was 130 cm and weighing over 20 kilo, 45lbs.

Check the complete article over here:
http://www.metersnoeken.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1574&Itemid=26

Best regards
Dick.