Story I read was that it originally weighed 5 lbs. 1 oz., but that they couldn't run down the game warden for the official weighing for 5 or 6 hours, so they stuck it in a freezer, and it lost an oz. in the meantime.

What a wonderful experience for a boy, but unless he's really optimistic, he's done the best he can reasonably expect to do, but what fisherman is reasonable?