IL state record Shorthead

Submitted by Gunnar on Sat, 04/24/2021 - 17:59

Friday, April 9, 2021

Redhorse, Shorthead

Size:

4 pounds 12.8 ounces

She was about 6 pounds when caught, but the official weight the next day was 4.8 pounds (4 lbs 12.8 oz).

Comments

andy

Sat, 04/24/2021 - 21:47

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Congrats Gunnar!

That is such a monster shorthead. Awesome accomplishment, may your record last a very long time.

You have earned the Golden Fish Award!

Gunnar

Thu, 04/29/2021 - 08:39

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11th anniversary of my first sucker and golden fish

I caught my very first sucker ever, a quillback, on April 11, 2010, in the very same creek and got the golden fish for that.
https://www.roughfish.com/node/25746

The creek is very generous in April. It gave me my lifer shorthead on 4/22/2010, my lifer white sucker on 4/29/2010, and my first 4-pound shorthead on 4/21/2015. And now The Queen on 4/9/2021.

Redhorse ID cheatsheets, gars, suckers: moxostoma.com

2020: 10 days fishing 11 species 0 lifers. 2019: 34/45/13 2018: 39/40/5

garman

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 08:26

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State Record

She is such a chunk! Great write-up. Congrats!

smurph

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 12:05

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Nice Fish!

What a fatty! Too bad the MN record will never be broken, unless it is revoked from a bad ID, 27" and 7lbs 15 oz. I don't think that was a shorthead.

Gunnar

Thu, 04/29/2021 - 08:17

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Smurph (or, as autocorrect

Smurph (or, as autocorrect calls you, "Smut-have") -- Getting the Minnesota shorthead record removed, along with others in various states, is a mission I'm working on.

Redhorse ID cheatsheets, gars, suckers: moxostoma.com

2020: 10 days fishing 11 species 0 lifers. 2019: 34/45/13 2018: 39/40/5

Goldenfishberg

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 18:20

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That’s the stuff!

Not everyday you get to catch something like that! Congrats to you! And I bet that butcher at your local grocery store will have a great story to tell forever

Ya just Can't catch um from the couch.