Look at the size of that paddlefish

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.