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logo 5/14/2024 3:51:25 AM     
Ohio angler logs a record breaker while catching bait 
By Chris Lawrence CA Source: wvmetronews 6/18/2021
Chris Lawrence
 One blustery day in April, Ethan Moss of Gallipolis, Ohio and a buddy headed out for the Ohio River. Their ultimate aim was to put some big catfish in the boat. However, the first order of business was to catch some bait.

Little did Moss realize it was the effort to catch bait which would put him into the fishing record books for the state of West Virginia.

“I thought it was ironic that as a pretty avid cat fisherman, I catch a state record catfish bait,” laughed Moss when asked about it on a recent edition of West Virginia Outdoors.
 

He landed a large skipjack in the tailwaters of the Robert C. Byrd Lock and Dam which beat the old records for both length and weight.

“We started getting into them pretty good. I had actually caught several and one of them was 19 and change inches. I had also measured another which was pretty close to the state record. About 20 to 30 minutes later I caught this one. I had no clue, I thought he was a white bass or a hybrid. I flipped him over the wall and the guy fishing next to me said, ‘That’s the state record.'” he explained.

It was a state record for West Virginia. Ohio doesn’t recognize the skipjack in its records program However, it set the new record for weight at 3.1 pounds and for length at 19.21 inches in West Virginia.

  
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