New Mexico teen catches possibly record breaking fish, releases it before gettin

[Graybeard]

https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/new-mexico-teen-catches-possibly-record-breaking-catfish

The fish was unofficially weighed at 55 pounds, which would make it slightly larger than the current record-holder

By Michael Hollan | Fox News

Age doesn’t beat experience.

A teenager in New Mexico is being credited with catching a 55-pound blue catfish. While the fish’s weight is impressive, it hasn’t received an official score because of the way the weight was recorded.



The potentially record-breaking fish was caught by 13-year-old Alonso Ordaz, KOAT 7 reports. He reportedly caught the large animal while fishing on a lake in Elephant Butte.

Ordaz’s father told the news outlet that they weighed the fish using a scale on the boat and determined that it weighed 55-pounds. They then released it.


According to the New Mexico Game and Fish Department, the current state record for blue catfish is 54.25-pounds. If Ordaz’s scale was correct, his fish could have set a new record.

Unfortunately, since the fish was not weighed on an official state scale, making the fish ineligible for the state record. Ordaz released the fish after catching it.

This is not the first time an angler has lost out on a potential record due to not getting a fished weighed on an official scale.


Fox News previously reported that a father and son from Virginia recently reeled in a "monster" bluefin tuna that may have set a new record in the state. But while the anglers had trouble getting an accurate weight for the fish, they’ll still likely be able to brag about this catch for a while.

Josiah VanFleet caught the massive Bluefin tuna while fishing with his 9-year-old son, Zeke, off the coast of the outer banks in North Carolina.


Unfortunately, the official scales at the fishing center broken, meaning Josiah and Zeke couldn't get a precise weight. Members of the Coast Guard, however, estimated the fish’s weight to be about 1,000 pounds. If accurate, it would be a record-breaker in North Carolina, as the current state record for Bluefin was set in 2017 at 877 pounds.

[Ranger99]

Hopefully, it was caught with the cheapest
cheap tackle and some kind of homemade
rigged up bait. The big shame of it is that
it's not an official recorded record fish.
I bet it still chapped some butts

[BUGEYE]

Ya know, I don't think I'd want to hook a cat that big.
I'm not a sport fisherman per-se, I like to catch 12" to 14" channels, and big bream, and eat'em.

I wouldn't mind being in the boat and watching someone else battle a big bruiser like that though.

[Dee]

I'd a hung that cat up by his head, cut his tail off to bleed him out, skinned him, trimmed the red meat of'em and rolled him in corn meal.
Then I'd a tried to break a record on how much catfish I could eat.

[BUGEYE]

I'd a hung that cat up by his head, cut his tail off to bleed him out, skinned him, trimmed the red meat of'em and rolled him in corn meal.
Then I'd a tried to break a record on how much catfish I could eat.

LOL, don’t hurt yourself there.
My wife loves catfish but I prefer a piled high platter of bream. (Bluegill,shell cracker,red breast,green and spotted sunfish, and warmouth)

[oldandslow]

Around here your bream are called perch. I have no inkling of how or why they got that name but that's the term used for them. Some people call them all bluegills. Anyway, if you hear someone taking about catching perch or bluegills here it means that they were catching one or more of the ones on your bream list.

On my first fishing trip down in Texas I asked the guy at the baitshop where I got my license if the lake had white bass in it. He looked at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he said "you must mean sandies and we have them".

[BUGEYE]

Around here your bream are called perch. I have no inkling of how or why they got that name but that's the term used for them. Some people call them all bluegills. Anyway, if you hear someone taking about catching perch or bluegills here it means that they were catching one or more of the ones on your bream list.

On my first fishing trip down in Texas I asked the guy at the baitshop where I got my license if the lake had white bass in it. He looked at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he said "you must mean sandies and we have them".

Yeah, and the folks in Louisiana call crappie, Sa-a-lait.

[Ranger99]

Around here your bream are called perch. I have no inkling of how or why they got that name but that's the term used for them. Some people call them all bluegills. Anyway, if you hear someone taking about catching perch or bluegills here it means that they were catching one or more of the ones on your bream list.

On my first fishing trip down in Texas I asked the guy at the baitshop where I got my license if the lake had white bass in it. He looked at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he said "you must mean sandies and we have them".

Yeah, and the folks in Louisiana call crappie, Sa-a-lait.

Don't forget the gaspergou. 

[Dee]

Around here your bream are called perch. I have no inkling of how or why they got that name but that's the term used for them. Some people call them all bluegills. Anyway, if you hear someone taking about catching perch or bluegills here it means that they were catching one or more of the ones on your bream list.

On my first fishing trip down in Texas I asked the guy at the baitshop where I got my license if the lake had white bass in it. He looked at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he said "you must mean sandies and we have them".

We always called'em perch. I don't know when that changed.

[BUGEYE]

Around here your bream are called perch. I have no inkling of how or why they got that name but that's the term used for them. Some people call them all bluegills. Anyway, if you hear someone taking about catching perch or bluegills here it means that they were catching one or more of the ones on your bream list.

On my first fishing trip down in Texas I asked the guy at the baitshop where I got my license if the lake had white bass in it. He looked at me like I was nuts and then it hit him and he said "you must mean sandies and we have them".

Yeah, and the folks in Louisiana call crappie, Sa-a-lait.

Don't forget the gaspergou. 

Ain't that a fresh water drum??
I've eaten a few filets of drum and it's not my favorite.  But they do put up a strong fight.  I caught a lot of them in Horseshoe lake in southern Illinois.