Montana 12-year-old stunned as he reels in record-breaking fish: ‘I’m in disbelief’

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It’s apparently never too early to start setting records and, for one young fisherman, he is just getting started.

Wade Merschat, 12, of Trout Creek, Montana, has just set his first record after reeling in a largescale sucker last month.

He landed the fish at his favorite, secret fishing spot in Noxon Rapids Reservoir with his father and some apprentices from Waypoint Outfitters Inc.

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“I saw them all swimming on the surface and swimming up the falls, and then kind of saw that one,” Wade Merschat told Fox News Digital.

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The moment when Wade Merschat caught the record-breaking fish was captured on video. “That’s a state record,” he can be heard saying in the footage. “I’m in disbelief.”

“And then I cast at it and had to get the perfect drift for it, and then I caught him.”

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The young angler saw the fish before finally reeling it in, but he had no idea just how large it actually…

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