If this photo found its way to your inbox or Facebook page, don't freak out and start sending it to everyone you know. It's a fake.

We talked to the photographer today and found out that the angler in the shot is a graphic designer seeing how far he can take a world record striper hoax.

Greg Myerson, breath a sigh of relief.

By Chad Love

If you were a bass-obsessed kid coming of age in the early 1980s, there are three things about you I can probably say for certain: you un-ironically rocked a mullet and trucker cap because you honestly, and tragically, thought it looked cool, you obsessively spent every dime of your minimum-wage grocery-store sacker wages on fishing tackle bought at small, independently-owned tackle stores, and you hung on every word written or spoken by a small group of bass fishing pioneers and legends that helped transform the sport into what it is today.

The mullet has thankfully disappeared into the receding hairline of history, most of those small, independent tackle stores that incited so much of our adolescent wonder are long gone, and another of those bass-fishing legends has just passed into memory.

By The Editors

Congratulations to Eric Sturos, who wins an unlocked iPhone 5 and an Otterbox phone case for posting the best photo to our Catchbook fishing app in October! And congrats to our runners up, James Carpenter, Chad Aldridge, and Kevin McDonough, who each won an Otterbox case. Check out their winning photos and see the rest of our picks for the 50 best shots posted in October by clicking through this gallery.

By Editors

Field & Stream's Catchbook app for the iPhone is a social fishing journal that automatically turns fish photos into catch records complete with detailed weather conditions, then lets you share that information on a map with fishing buddies you trust. The map is private, but the photos of your fish are public, which means everyone can see what all Catchbook users are landing around the country (and around the world!).

Since we launched the app in April, more than 6,300 people have installed it on their phones and have posted thousands of photos (check out our editors' picks for the 50 best shots from September here).

If you fish, and you have an iPhone, we'd love it if you'd check out our app. Here's an extra incentive: We're giving away a 16GB iPhone 5 (MSRP: $649)—plus OtterBox Defender Series ($49.95) and Commuter Series ($34.95) cases to go with it—to the best photo posted to the app during the month of October. Also, the best photo each week wins one of OtterBox's great new iPhone cases. Click the link to download this fishing app from the iTunes store.