Here ya go! Length only and must be released… 
MARCUM FLASHER “PINGS” A PENDING WORLD RECORD
Giant Saskatchewan Walleye Caught, Captured on Film, Released
Regina, Saskatchewan – In recent years, Canada’s central prairie province has perhaps grown more gargantuan walleyes than any other region on earth. Beneath the surface at fisheries such as Tobin and Last Mountain lakes, copious 12 to 15-pound fish eat the lures of anglers every season.
If Saskatchewan grows monsters, wintertime, it appears, may be the time to catch them. On Tobin Lake, January 2005, Reverend Mariusz Zajac iced an enormous 18.3-pound walleye—an eventual world record in the Ice Fishing Rod and Reel, kept category.
Six years later, almost to the day, veteran angler Tim Geni slid another potential record-breaker onto the ice. This time, the fish was safely released to bite and fight another day.
On January 5, Geni, a successful tournament angler and Last Mountain Lake expert from the nearby town of Wilcox, caught a 33-3/4-inch (86-cm) walleye with a robust 19-3/8-inch girth. Having drilled a series of holes over a rock shelf with his 8-inch StrikeMaster Laser Mag auger, Geni began aggressively working a jigging spoon over 21-feet of water. At 9:30am, something big appeared on his MarCum flasher unit.
“I was ripping my spoon pretty aggressively,” says Geni, who has landed over twenty walleyes in the 12 to 15-pound range from Saskatchewan waters. “A sharp snap, and then a pause and drop allows the spoon to flutter horizontally. It’s a really effective way to decoy walleyes into your fishing area.
“When I saw a thick, bright red blip materialize on the screen of my MarCum LX-3, I immediately stopped ripping the spoon, and just started giving it little twitches. Even though this fish was belly to bottom, my MarCum still was able to separate its signal from the structure. The unit’s target separation was so precise, in fact, that I was able to guide the spoon right close to her jaws. Almost immediately, I felt a thunk and had the fish hooked.”
Using wispy 4-pound test fluorocarbon line, Geni expertly guided the fish to just beneath his hole, at which point the enormity of its size hit home. “When I saw her mammoth head swim by the bottom of the hole, it was game on,” Geni recounted. Thanks to nearby friends Ron Ross and Ben Scherg, however, the freshwater animal soon found itself safely within Geni’s gloved grip. And then it found itself back and swimming in Last Mountain’s icy waters.
“These big fish are way too special to kill,” Geni emphasized. “I feel really good that she’s back and healthy in the water. Catching a pending world record is awesome, but knowing it’s still alive down there—that’s even better.”
While waiting for approval from the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame, Geni looks forward to reliving the moment as often as possible on TV. The entire adventure was captured on video by No Excuses Outdoors (www.noexcusestv.com), which plans to air the Last Mountain ice fishing episode in mid February.
Sent: Fri 1/21/2011 1:44 PM
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Hope you get that record.
