A fisherman caught a 8.2 kg light-finned walleye and broke a 40-year record broke the 41-year record. This is reported by the website Goerie.com.
62-year-old Richard Nicholson fished a fish 86 centimeters long and weighing 8.2 kilograms in the Yokegeini River. On the advice of his son, who was familiar with local fishing records, he weighed zander on two scales and sent the results to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
The Commission confirmed that Nicholson had managed to break Mike Holly's record in 1980 year caught light-finned pike perch weighing 7.97 kilograms. The fisherman received a certificate confirming his achievement.
Nicholson plans to make a stuffed animal out of a record pike perch. Luck did not leave him even after the record: since then he managed to catch a muskinong pike with a length of 101.6 centimeters and three more pike perch, the smallest of which was 68 centimeters, and the largest was 81 centimeters in length.
Light-finned pike perch is a North American fish related to the common pike perch found in Russia. Known individuals up to 107 centimeters long, weighing up to 11.3 kilograms.
Earlier it was reported that in the US state of Florida, the fisherman Nathaniel Kicklighter caught a large trout fish in the lake. After measuring and weighing it, it turned out that the fish weighed 6.66 kilograms.