Wayne--

The guide measured the fish at 41-inches, but it might have qualified as longer since he only laid it on the ruler to show me it was much longer than the 33-inches maximum keeper length.

I was not interested in keeping it anyway, we were releasing everything.

It was of course not a record for snook, but when it had been landed the guide exclaimed "That is the fish of a lifetime!"

That was the only fish I caught that day, the son and granddaughter were catching jacks...up to the point when she hooked what was apparently a shark that nobody could haul to the boat, with the line finally cut by the fish.

Larry