Manabu Kurita record tying bass

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Guys, I recently saw a purported picture of George Washington Perry's bass, and it prompted me to look at a picture of the bass from japan a couple years ago that supposedly tied the record.

There was one thing that seemed strange, every article I have found on the japaneese fish claims that it was 27 inches long, and 26 inches in girth.

That is a huge bass, but...you look at records of other huge bass, and there are plenty of 20 pounders that are inches larger. The BPS formula states that a fish with those measurements would be around 17 pounds.

I know this is all a couple years old and all, but what gives? Did someone misconvert the measurements, did IFGA rubber stamp something cause of a picture...? I'm not a skeptic, I just think something was incorrectly reported...right? Is there a way that a 27x26 inch fish can be 22 pounds?