It took her 15 minutes to land the record-setting fish, caught on the Upper Potomac in Washington County on May 6 and certified Wednesday by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Cosens has been fishing with family since childhood and loves it, but she hadn’t been to the river in months.

“I’m almost three-months pregnant now, and I had some pretty serious morning sickness and haven’t been able to do much of anything,” Cosens said.

“Saturday morning, I woke up feeling great,” she said. “So we headed out about lunch time to the river.”