An Essex man broke a 44-year-old record by catching a 49-pound carp over the weekend in the Chesapeake Bay.Logan Kurhmann, 24, is the new state record holder for common carp in the state's Chesapeake Division, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.Kurhmann caught a 49-pound carp Saturday while bass fishing in the Susquehanna Flats area of the Chesapeake Bay, DNR said.Kuhrmann was using a spinning tackle with a plastic worm and initially thought he hooked either a flathead or blue catfish. After a few minutes, the enormous carp was hauled onto the boat and into the live well, DNR said."We've seen some really big ones up in the Flats, but we've never seen one this big ever," Kurhmann told the DNR. "The bass fishing wasn't great, but this made my week."The catch was weighed on a certified scale by Mike Benjamin of Herbs Bait and Tackle in North East and verified by a DNR biologist.The previous record of 44.4 pounds was held by Jimmy Lake with a fish caught off Morgantown Beach in 1978.