A 15-year-old girl from New Richmond may have broken an Ohio state record on Sunday, April 7, for the largest blue catfish, with the monster weighing in at a whopping 101.11 pounds.
“He was bigger than we ever imagined,” Jaylynn Parker, a sophomore at New Richmond High School, told Fox News Digital.
Parker and her family put out jug lines in a creek off the Ohio River around 8 p.m. the evening before the big catch.
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Jug fishing is a method of fishing that uses lines suspended from floating jugs to catch fish in lakes or rivers.
Fishing lines with hooks are tied onto jugs and weights can be added to the line to keep the jug’s location fixed.
Jaylynn Parker, 15, of New Richmond, Ohio, shows off her 101-pound blue catfish, caught in the Ohio River on April 7, 2024. (Kristen Parker)
Typically, they are set out at sunset and checked the next morning.
“Then Sunday comes and we get there about 2 p.m.,”…