this came from another site, monster tog, WOW is all I can say, nice catch!!!!
weight - 20 lbs. 6.5 ozs.
lenght - 30 1/4 inches.
girth - 22 inches.
Angler: Yakov Elkin
Capt: Eilya Elkin
Father and son team up to land the pending new york state record blackfish record.
Eilya ( the son of the team) put his boat over a local piece of bottom and his dad finished the
job. What would otherwise be an average blackfish trip with a nice limit of tog including a 10 1/2
kicker fish suddenly became the trip of a lifetime. When Yakov set the hook, he knew he was into a
nice fish right away.It was not until 1/2 way up that the realization of just how nice this fish was started to kick in. A few minutes later Eilya masterfully nets the tog for Yakov and the 2 anglers start go back and forth with there respectful guesses of the weight. Neither angler imagined 20 lbs!
So they dig out a scale and of course with a rocking boat it was impossible to get a accurate reading,
BUT at no point while the scale numbers swung back and forth with the rocking boat did the numbers go below 20 1/4 lbs.