Hello Innari, or Rowan if you please. My name is Ifful, and I am the previous holder of the all shard big fish record (at 218 stones). First, allow me to congratulate you on your magnificent catch! But even more than that, I wish to thank you! I have held the record too long, and I had even been entertaining the notion of putting up a large in-game gold reward for a record-breaking catch. Why? I speak from experience (though possibly only for myself) when I say that being at the top comes with certain enjoyable bragging rights but also (and more painfully) the emptiness that comes from no longer having a true target to strive for. Thank you very much for giving me back that target. It is with great pleasure that I will seek to break, or at least match, your new all-shard record. I may never realise that dream, but an unattainable dream is still better than none at all. Once again, congratulations and thank you!
Oh yes, in case no one has done so already, I do intent to inform the Japanese UO fan and information sites of your accomplishment: your name will take the place of honor in the fishing-related pages. Not that I didn't trust your image, but I just HAD to see this trophy in person. You didn't provide coordinates to your house, but no matter, I found it anyway matching up the road on the side. I see you moved the trophy indoors. It is truely awesome.