Posted on 03/28/2024 7:15:29 AM PDT by SJackson
A Midwestern angler broke a world record last week after reeling in a female carp that weighed nearly 100 pounds.
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announced the massive catch by fisherman George Chance in a Mar. 22 press release. Chance caught a 97-pound bighead carp during a fishing excursion along the Mississippi River.
"Chance was bank fishing for catfish with a bottom-bouncing crankbait when he hooked into the fish March 19," the MDC explained in a statement.
"Chance was fighting with the fish for around 20 minutes before he finally got it onto the shore."
The Festus, Missouri, resident told state officials that he thought the fish only weighed 50 or 60 pounds when he reeled it in. The mama fish was "full of eggs," Chance said.
"You kind of know what a fish is once you hook into it based on how it fights," the angler described. "It was moving pretty slow and I originally thought it could be a flathead…The more it fought, I saw it’s tail and knew it was some type of carp."
"I was able to hook [her] with a hay hook in order to get [her] out of the water."
According to the MDC, Chance's catch broke the world record for largest bighead carp caught using the pole-and-line method of fishing.
The International Game & Fish Association's website says that the largest bighead carp ever caught was 90 pounds and found in Tennesssee in 2005. There are unverified reports of larger bighead carps being reeled out of lakes and rivers, but the MDC maintains that Chance's carp is verifiably the largest the pole-and-line carp catch.
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Look at the head on that thing!
Dang!!
"I was able to hook [her] with a hay hook in order to get [her] out of the water."
Hope they got the pronoun right. When did the reporter ask the fish. Or did the reporter assign the pronoun based on birth. In any case, a lot of carp dinners.
The mama fish was “full of eggs,” Chance said.
Festus, Missouri?
Mr. Chance - you did great!! Took a tough old guy to outplay that tough old carp.
Well done, sir.
Nah…It’s not that big. He simply put the fish closer to the camera!
Crawdad Song
~ Woody Guthrie
You get a line and I’ll get a pole, Honey (Honey)
You get a line and I’ll get a pole, Babe (Babe)
You get a line and I’ll get a pole
We’ll go fishin’ in the crawdad hole
Honey, Baby mine
That’s some fish! :)
Wow. And from a mower too.
Jeremy wade is jealous-
No doubt that was a real river monster.
As opposed to the dynamite method.
He’s going to need a bigger boat 🛥 🚤 🛶
This is what a really big Goldfish looks like, don’t flush Goldfish into our streams and rivers.
I haven’t heard that since basic training.
I call BS. Probably included the weight if the hook.
**Nah…It’s not that big. He simply put the fish closer to the camera!**
Not much closer. His arm is close to his waist and holding the belly fin in his hand. If photoshopped, they added some shadow on the fin next to his fingers.
**I call BS. Probably included the weight if the hook.**
Ha! Hay hooks are only about a pound or two. I used hay hooks a LOT in my 25+ years of ‘racking bales’ on hayracks. Used them in the barn too.
I was being facetious. It’s big!
That’s a lot of carp!
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