maybe chuck thought it ended up in frying pan, because the kid has a gigantic right arm, with a huge hand on the end of it, and he would celarly need all the protein he could get, to keep that thing working.
apparently at the expense of his normal sized left arm.
my snarky way of wondering if this was photoshopped. it's a pretty big meaty hand that's holding the fish
If not, it's a great fish, and I would have wet myself if i had managed a bass that nice as a kid.
In absense of a tape measure, know your pole. IE - the rod handle/base is X # of inches long, it's X far from where handle connects to rod, to the first eye, etc. even if you have to measure when you get home, IE - fish was from base to the "A" in "falcon" on my rod... you'll have a pretty close measurement.