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Ohio man catches record blue catfish in West Virginia
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An Ohio man has caught a document blue catfish in West Virginia.
Steve Worth of Lancaster, Ohio, used reduce shad bait to catch the fish from a ship Wednesday on the Kanawha River between Buffalo and Level Nice, the Division of Pure Sources mentioned in a information launch.
Worth’s document fish was 50.7 inches lengthy, breaking the document of fifty.15 inches (127.4 centimeters) set final 12 months. It additionally weighed a document 67.22 kilos (30.5 kilograms). That topped the mark of 61.28 kilos set earlier this 12 months.
A DNR hatchery supervisor measured Worth’s catch previous to its launch.