Yeah - I just wanted to make sure that no one else had that idea. Also - if I had doctored a world record fish, the last thing I would do would be to happily donate the doctored fish to be inspected by a scientist. And also, I would not want future sportsman-scientist relations tobe marred by something that I would do that would impugn the honor of an honest sportsman.

On the grey stuff - it looked like parts of the cavity, mostly but not entirely within the posterior half of the right ovary, had transformed to some kind of soft greasy grey stuff. Like it had really rotted badly, except it didn't smell worse than the rest of the fish - which was not that great to begin with, I'll admit. And the texture was more uniform than I would have expected for just rotting stuff.