It's strange how there's always some glitch or technicality everytime one of these California Bass are caught that claim the new record.

It's obvious from the story that these guys are out targeting the world record so I wonder why they didn't know the rule about foul hooking and go ahead and have it weighed on a certified scale. In my opinion, if it only had one of those two conditions - either just foul hooked but weighed properly or not foul hooked and weighed on the hand held scale - then it would probably be certified. As they have both of those conditions, I have my doubts that it will.