Man catches record breaking 64-pound fish on Austin, TX lake

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A person fishing on Austin’s Woman Chook Lake caught a 64-pound smallmouth buffalo, reeling a file in together with it.

“Me and my buddy went to the lake, we had been concentrating on carp and I ended up catching that file buffalo,” Cassady Douglas mentioned.

Smallmouth buffalo, additionally identified by the scientific title Ictiobus Bubalus, are usually present in Texas in massive streams or rivers unique of the Panhandle, in response to Texas Parks and Wildlife. They are often confused with carp however don’t have the barbels (the issues that appear to be whiskers).

Smallmouth buffalo have been caught on a rod and reel by anglers exceeding 82 kilos, in response to Texas Parks and Wildlife. In the meantime, the trotline file is 97 kilos in Texas.

Douglas mentioned he had no thought what he was going to finish up with when he hooked it.

“It took me about 25 minutes to reel within the fish,” Douglas mentioned. “I couldn’t imagine how heavy it felt and I didn’t assume that I used to be going to land it.”

Douglas has solely been fishing for a couple of years, however mentioned it has been a objective of his to see his title within the file ebook. Texas Parks and Wildlife awarded Douglas with a water physique file, formally logging the burden as 64 kilos.

“I used to be identical to ‘oh my god’ it is a buffalo fish in Woman Chook Lake and I couldn’t imagine its measurement. We weighed it with a licensed scale and submitted it,” Douglas mentioned.

It’s the heaviest fish that’s been recorded for Woman Chook Lake. The subsequent-biggest fish was a grass carp weighing in at 50 kilos.

“It’s so cool. It’s all the time been a dream,” Douglas mentioned.