That's right, a monster croaker.
BTW I stole this from some fishing site....

The biggest Atlantic croaker ever caught was landed today by Norman Jenkins of Portsmouth.
Flounder fishing off New Point Light near Mathews County, Jenkins landed an 8-pound, 11-ounce croaker that shattered both the state and world record for the species. The International Game Fish Association all-tackle record for the species � a member of the drum family � weighed 5-8 and was caught in 2000 off the Alabama coast.

Wow...

So much for using that dude live as trout bait...
He's eat the trout!

Now there were 3 whole pounds and I thought they were HUGE!
BTW that board is in tenths of feet not inches, so thats 1.3 feet.

yup that's a big one. they average about two pounds..