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Record-Breaking Catch: Maryland Man Reels In 49-Pound Carp
Logan Kurhmann, 24 of Essex caught the giant fish while bass fishing in the Susquehanna Flats area of the Chesapeake Bay.
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — A Maryland man broke a decades-old record by catching a pretty fish in the Chesapeake Bay over the weekend.
Logan Kurhmann, 24 of Essex caught 49-pound carp Saturday while bass fishing in the Susquehanna Flats area of the Chesapeake Bay, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Kuhrmann was using a spinning tackle with a plastic worm and thought at first he’d hooked either a flathead or blue catfish. After a few minutes, the enormous carp was hauled onto the boat and into the live well, DNR officials said.
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“We’ve seen some really big ones up in the Flats but we’ve never seen one this big ever,” Kurhmann said. “The bass fishing wasn’t great but this made my week.”
The catch was weighed on a certified scale by Mike Benjamin of Herbs Bait and Tackle in North East and verified by a DNR biologist.
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According to DNR, the previous record of 44.4 pounds was held by Jimmy Lake with a fish caught off Morgantown Beach in 1978.
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