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Colossal carp: Pennsylvanian catches massive fish in West Virginia lake

Colossal carp: Pennsylvanian catches massive fish in West Virginia lake
Usually when someone tells you they caught *** 41 inch long fish, which happens to you all the time, I'm not sure it's *** fish tail, but not this time. Not this time. Take *** look at this picture of Aden Minnick of Mount Pleasant. That's right. He has evidence here. That is *** record breaking carp. He caught off the banks of Somerville Lake out in west Virginia. The division of natural resources says that the May seven catch, Measured in at 41.2 in, which breaks the 1998 record of 41" by just that little bit, along with the record breaking length. The fish weighed in at £45, and that's *** big old fish. Okay. Mhm. Mhm.
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Colossal carp: Pennsylvanian catches massive fish in West Virginia lake
A Pennsylvania angler caught a record carp while fishing from the bank of Summersville Lake in West Virginia, regulators said.Ayden Minick, of Mount Pleasant, caught and released the carp on May 7, the Division of Natural Resources said in a news release. It measured by a DNR fisheries biologist at 41.2 inches long, breaking the record of 41 inches caught in 1988 by Charles Cook at Stonecoal Lake.The carp weighed 45 pounds, which was just shy of the record of 47 pounds set in 1998 in a Preston County farm pond.

A Pennsylvania angler caught a record carp while fishing from the bank of Summersville Lake in West Virginia, regulators said.

Ayden Minick, of Mount Pleasant, caught and released the carp on May 7, the Division of Natural Resources said in a news release. It measured by a DNR fisheries biologist at 41.2 inches long, breaking the record of 41 inches caught in 1988 by Charles Cook at Stonecoal Lake.

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The carp weighed 45 pounds, which was just shy of the record of 47 pounds set in 1998 in a Preston County farm pond.