R1_Ridah;528767; said:
..Believe me if it wasn't a 5 hour drive from me I would.....
I'm curious as to who was fortunate enough to buy this Goliath ?
next fish run up north. there is suppose to be more than one there. if it is true, we split it and both come up big and talk about it on the long drive home..
to the OP, i really dont think you should take it so personally. maybe you just dont know how rare these GATF are. if you did, for $200 you would have snatched it up and probably make 5x the amount you paid for. i mean even if i did found one at a LFS that is truely a goliath for $500, i would snatch it up and figure out what i would do with it later. that is easy money or on the way to getting a fish I really want. i would be giggling like a little school girl while calling Joey up asking him, "guess what's in the bag..." you are not the first person to post they saw a Goliath at a LFS and you surely wont be the last. there has been many false alarms to get people so excited and 99.999% ended up disappointed.
i've seen Joey's Goliath couple of times along with his other ATFs and even now if i saw it again in alone, i still would not be able to tell the difference amongs the others.