Les Jones

Look at the size of that paddlefish

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | Misc |

I first saw paddlefish at the Chattanooga Aquarium. They’re cool-looking fish with enormously long snouts. The ones I recall seeing in the aquarium were small - up the size of a smallish large-mouth bass.

I was amazed to see the monster paddlefish a guy caught at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge last week. He estimates it weighed over 75 pounds. He took a picture and released it back into the water so it would live. The state record is 125 pounds.

Hat tip to Michael Silence.

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