[Bill McIntyre]

Just in case you don't happen to know (and just in case you happen to give a damn), if you spear a fish while chumming, it will not be eligible for an IBRSC record unless the chum was from fish that you speared on site, yourself.

I don't personally care about missing the remote possibility of a record, but I just didn't you to come up with a record fish and then be disappointed when your application was turned down.

A guy I know shot what would have been a world record albacore off Monterey, CA, but they were chumming with frozen dead anchovies, so it didn't count.

And to complicate application of this silly rule, what if other boats near you are chumming, but you are not? There is a spot out in the Gulf of Mexico off the mouth of the Mississippi River called the Midnight Lump where the tuna fishing is very good, and when the fish are in, there are always lots of fishing boats anchored and chumming. I'm not positive of this, but it is my impression that Julie Riffe lost a chance for a woman's record yellowfin tuna because the boats around her were chumming.