Found this just now on ESPN.com. What a pig!!! Weighed in at 25.1 pounds. Here’s the link for the story, it includes a photo.
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?page=f_fea_bass_world-record_Weakley_25.1
now thats a piggie. 
Is the fish a World Record? IMO Unofficially YES, but there is too much red tape and question for this to become certified…
Dude think of the size of the filets on that, I could eat that fish for a week solid and I really like bass.
Eat a bass???
YUCK!
yuck. nothing could make that fish taste good…. 
That is one huge fish. Too bad there was not a certified scale there, but I think the guy did the right thing by releasing it. He seemed very concerned about the health of the fish, and those genetics are now spawning 
What a cow.
My thoughts, if the scale checks out to be accurate the record should be his.
A quote from Jaws, “That fish is 20, nope 25 (Pounds) feet.”
If they have a picture of the fish on the scale, all you need is a NIST standards block to verify what the scale actually is when it reads 25 pounds. You should be able to reverse certify it. (If you can prove the same scale was used to weigh the fish! 
) Then the question is the foul hooking. Which I understand may net be a question. Like Slop said, it may be too much red tape. 
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