Ohio Youngster Catches State Document Blue Catfish

What do you do all through the wet season in Ohio? You catch a state-record blue catfish! That’s what 15-year-old Jaylynn Parker of New Richmond Ohio did whilst fishing along with her father, Chuck Parker. The daddy and daughter workforce have been checking jug strains in a creek that is attached to the Ohio River. When the river overruns the banks those tributaries are recognized for generating catfish. “It’s a good way to make the most efficient of a foul state of affairs,” stated Chuck. The Parkers set a large number of strains out within the creek. The strains made from 200-pound take a look at baited with skipjack.  A easy Clorox bleach jug served because the glide. The road is administered during the take care of of the jug the place the Parkers then tie the tip of the road to a close-by overhanging tree department that serves as an anchor if any fish attempt to swim off with the jug. 

After recognizing the jug bobbing within the water, Jaylynn grabbed it and began pulling, however didn’t be expecting to be nearly pulled overboard. Her father and his good friend Jeff Sams temporarily helped out by way of attaining down and lifting the fish into the boat. “There’s no means I may have gotten him within the boat alone,” she stated. “I’m handiest about ten kilos larger than him.” 

After the fish used to be mendacity at the floorboard of the boat, truth hit. “I couldn’t forestall screaming,” Parker stated. “I in reality didn’t assume he used to be going to be that gigantic. I used to be so shocked.” After you have the fish to land the circle of relatives instantly referred to as the Ohio Division of Natural world and Fisheries to have it formally weighed and measured. The monstrous catfish measured 56 inches lengthy with a 39-inch girth. It crowned the size at 101.11 kilos which is 5 kilos heavier than Chris Rolph’s 96-pound blue taken from the Ohio River in 2009. 

Keith Lusher

Keith Lusher is an award profitable outside journalist that is living in Covington, Louisiana. He owns and operates NorthshoreFishingReport.com and writes a weekly outside column for the Slidell Impartial Newspaper. He additionally writes for the St.Tammany Parish Tourism Fee’s VisitTheNorthshore.com. He’s the previous host of The Northshore Fishing Document Radio Display and is at the board of the Louisiana Out of doors Writers Affiliation. Keith contributes to a large number of publications each on-line and in print and prides himself on selling South Louisiana’s distinctive fishery. To touch Keith electronic mail: [email protected]