You’re out on the lake, enjoying a nice day of fishing. You’ve been having some success most of the day, and then you feel it. Your rod bends in half, and the line starts running, but you’ve set the hook and now it’s time to battle. When you finally wrangle this monster into your boat, you realize you might be looking at a possible record. One Minnesota man thought he had a record Northern, but was missing two important things!
If you think you’ve got a record fish, make sure you follow these steps when you are submitting your catch to the state. You don’t want to miss out on a record due to a preventable issue.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources posted about a man who missed out on a possible record:
Check out this lunker of a northern pike!
Jacob Skarloken of Merrifield, MN caught and released this incredible fish last week. Unfortunately, the fish couldn’t be recognized as a state record since photos of the measurements and release weren’t taken. Regardless, an…