Using a road runner lure, the 56-year-old snagged a smallmouth bass, and the extra companion was an adult lamprey. "It just came out with the smallmouth, so I'm assuming it was on the smallmouth and when it hit fresh air, it dropped off the smallmouth," Blomberg told the News-Leader in a phone interview. "I knew what it was, but I wasn't familiar with it being in the Current River."