Go to a local grocery store or meat market and they should have a certified scale. The longer you wait to weigh it, it will lose more weight.

Hopefully we should be going in within the next day or so.. Thanks for the info on locating a scale..

You probably could of caught a state record Amberjack on him.

Does it still count if I put him in the freezer till I get to the dock?

I had caught one the night before bigger then this one but threw him back not thinking anything ab a record breaking fish.. Oh well it's just in the story books as the one that got away..

Are you working offshore? I hope you have a commercial fishing license. Since you are on a commercial boat/rig/platform you are suppose to have a commercial license. We had guys get busted at the heliport for bringing fish in (even tho they were within regulation). Thats what the LDWF told us.

I'm not an expert on fish, but that might be a small horse eye jack. Something about the tail and the ridge forward of the tail appear to be different from the hardtail. Not sure though.

A blue runner has both a spinous dorsal and a soft dorsal, your fish does not. The dorsal is also set further back than on a blue runner. As the previous post says its likely a horse-eye jack.

Be certain you contact wild life and fisheries to have an agent present. I recently read an article about a fellow who caught a would be world record stripped bass if he would followed all the rules. I attached the article below. Good luch and don't use it to catch tuna! lolrnrnhttp://www.gofishn.com/gofishn/monster-striped-bass-denied-state-record-could-be-world-record-1000000-fish/

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