After using the Hawg Trough while kayak fishing for a couple of years now, I looked back through my Kayak Wars stats and realized that it's helped me measure and photograph well over 4 hundred fish (including the ones that were too small). It makes documenting the catch quick and easy. It's accurate and the numbers show up well in the photos. It hardly weighs anything, which is great on a kayak, and it stores easily.
With the conservation efforts surrounding the fishing industry today, there was always one hold out. Despite the conservation efforts the International Game Fish Association, their rules for recording world record fish usually resulted in the fish's death. That has finally changed.