Big River Giant

[ozark trout fisher]

Reminds of an average little Big River smallie I caught and took a pic of last Summer. When I got home I did a little doctoring to it and sent it to another fisherman friend. I'm not very good at Photoshop, but I knew it would be viewed on a phone, so it would probably work. Of course, I would never pass this off as real, and I let him in on my little joke

When you say it's photo-shopped, I could recognize it.....but for my purposes you probably could have gotten away with it if you hadn't said anything.Some others surely would have picked up on it though. I don't even have a clue how to use that program so all my pictures are real LOL.

[jdmidwest]

Crap. Now all the giggers are heading to Big River.

Remember, some little creek in a place far far away.

[LarrySTL]

I've got fairly large hands and using Al's measuring technique I get about 21" on the fish. If the guy who caught it has hands smaller than mine, which is pretty likely, downsize that 21 to something less.

On 405's photoshop'd fish, I wouldn't have noticed anything suspicious about his second pic. In fact, knowing that its altered all I can see is that the first in pic # 2 looks somewhat blurry or less distinct than the rest of that same pic. It woulda fooled me.

[Al Agnew]

Since I work with Photoshop a lot, I would have noticed immediately that the edge of the anal fin and tail fin were too sharp-edged, compared to the rest of the photo. They were obvious because of the contrast between the dark fin and the light background.

[P_L]

If there is a set of falls on the big the next question I would ask is how many pixels are on a phone cam and are there enough to photoshop with? After that I would ask where would such a fish be caught

Legitimately and how hard would it be to get it to the big? Either way it is a very nice fish and put my biggest sm to shame haha. this is the reason why I hold my rod next to the fish in my pics. In life you gotta have perspective

[Al Agnew]

The falls could possibly have been water going over a mill dam. You can work with something in Photoshop no matter how many or few pixels, but duplicating the degree of noise and blurriness in the photo to make a photoshopped fish fit in would be pretty difficult.

[Terrierman]

Reminds of an average little Big River smallie I caught and took a pic of last Summer. When I got home I did a little doctoring to it and sent it to another fisherman friend. I'm not very good at Photoshop, but I knew it would be viewed on a phone, so it would probably work. Of course, I would never pass this off as real, and I let him in on my little joke

Wow that fish in the second pic is a real beast. Good job man.

[joeD]

CSI : Missouri Smallmouth Myth Busters!

Poor guy caught a nice fish, had a picture taken, then gets excoriated for the sin of "size embellishment." And the actual fish catcher wasn't even the one who posted.

Verdict: Guilty as charged. The photo proved beyond a doubt that the fish was indeed, through scientific methods, not 24." Further, more egregious, the fish in question was proven not to have come from the Big River.

Case closed. Legitimate big smallie catchers can breathe easier.

[cnr]

Okay JoeD, did you not read the original post? The poster asked for an opinion "Is it 24 inch fish?". It's a darn nice fish wherever it was caught.

[moguy1973]

At least he didn't have a spear stuck through it's side