Posted on 05/04/2023 11:22:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tell me, is this good?
Last week, Oklahoma angler Gabe Brannick set out with High Water Guide Service to fish for some paddlefish on the Neosho River.
However, this guided trip quickly turned into one Brannick will never forget…
Because he reeled in a MASSIVE 110.1 pound bighead carp, which ordinarily would be good enough to earn him an IGFA world record, however, because he snagged it while looking for paddlefish, it won’t count. The world record doesn’t recognize snagging as a method of catch according to Field & Stream.
And on top of that, he blew the previous record out of the water by 20 pounds.
High Water Guide Service shared in a Facebook post:
“Pending Oklahoma State Record Big Head Carp!
This beast came in at 110.1 lbs!
These fish pack a lot of fight and this one was like pulling the plug out of the river. We caught this fish just north of Twin Bridges. As of right now we are pursuing the state record for Oklahoma.
This can potentially be the World Record for rod and reel! I need more information on that if anybody has it. We also landed a giant 94.2 lb big head the next day!”
Definitely a trip that Brannick will be talking about for the rest of his life.
You can’t hold that one closer to the camera to make it look bigger ,LOL
That’s what happens when you throw your old goldfish in the lake.
Don’t be Koi.....................
I’m sure this guy was thinking Take the picture already!
I am amazed that guy can hold 110 pounds with such ease.
Maybe it’s easier since it means more to him, kind of like a mother saving her son by lifting a car that fell off a tire jack onto her son.
Trump beat biden in 2020, but it won’t count.
When I was his age I could.........................
My grandmother would have made us eat that thing! So I would have thrown it back…
That’s right. Granny didn’t need to see the fish. Lol
That’s a bummer. About 15 years ago I was fishing on a float trip with a buddy on the White River below the Bull Shoals Dam. He caught a world record brown trout by a couple ounces when weighed on the drift boat. It was frickin’ hot and we had no way to fully ice the fish down. By the time we got to a weigh station it was no longer a world record.
I feel strangely compelled to weigh in on this topic.
Bighead carp is actually very good table fare.
White meat, nice and flaky, mild flavor. Delicious battered and fried.
They do have bones in strange places compared to the fish species that most North American anglers would be familiar with, but butchering them is easy enough once you’ve done a few.
LOL!
In the late 40's and early 50's we ate tons of these things because they were easy to trap in gill nets. They are bony for sure but taste very good. There are people on YouTube that show how to filet the carp so you can ignore the bones. Currently carp are an infestation of Oklahoma streams and lakes.
I fished the Neosho and Grand Lake for years but haven't been in that area for 50 years. The low water damn in Miami Oklahoma was the spot to snag spoon bill cats.
I will agree that asian carp in North American waters are a curse. The bigheads are a minor nuisance compared to the silvers (the jumping kind).
The man responsible for bringing those vermin to the US should have his huevos crushed in a vise. It’s not much fun getting clocked by one of those things when you’re out for a boat ride on the river, not to mention the slime and disgusting green stuff they puke up while flopping around on the deck.
I'd be curious to know what pound test line that kid was using. Gotta let that fish run (drag) and tire out in order to catch it.
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