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.
“And then I cast at it and had to get the perfect drift for it, and then I caught him.”
The young angler saw the fish before finally reeling it in, but he had no idea just how large it actually…