Congratulations. In later years, he can truthfully tell his fishing buddies: "You know what, one time, back in the good old days when men were men and fish were huge, I caught a gafftop that was a thick as my leg." And he'll have the picture to prove it.
That gafftop is bigger than anything I caught while rock-hopping the south jetty this weekend in cold drizzle, with 40 knot winds and muddy current--I can tell you that!
Russ