South Dakota
Iowa man catches South Dakota-record flathead catfish
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An Iowa man set a brand new document for South Dakota’s largest flathead catfish.
The South Dakota Recreation, Fish and Parks Division says Ethan Evink, of Hospers, Iowa, caught the monster fish on the Missouri River in Union County.
The fish weighed 67 kilos and eight ounces, had a size of 51.5 inches and girth of 32.5 inches.
The GFP says Evink caught the fish at 5 a.m. utilizing cutbait.
Anybody who catches a fish they suppose could be thought of as a state document must have the fish weighed on a licensed scale — most grocery shops and meat lockers have them.
You possibly can view different state document fish on the GFP’s database web site.
There’s additionally a state document fish software that must be crammed out and signed by house owners of the licensed scale, witness data and different particulars. Two witnesses apart from the angler have to be current in the course of the weighing course of or one GFP or regulation enforcement worker have to be current.