I just read a story where a guy went bow fishing and caught a 92lb 8 oz Big head Carp. I think it was at least 60 inches.  A couple of guys fishing near him thought it was a log. But sure enough, he saw it come to the surface. It took him 10 minutes to pull it close enough were he jumped in and grabbed the fish and brought it ashore.  Story below.....

WORDEN, Ill. -- Darin Opel is allergic to fish. If he eats one or something that has been fried in the same grease, the reaction swells his throat shut.

"That's why my buddies like to go fishing with me," said Opel, a 40-year-old operations manager from Worden. "I can catch them and handle them, but I can't eat them. They're the ones that get to take the fish home."

Nobody will be getting the fish Opel caught Sunday -- except maybe the Guiness Book of World Records.

Bowfishing for gar from the shore in backwater above the Melvin Price Lock and Dam No. 26 on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River near Alton, Opel shot a 92-pound, 8-ounce bighead carp with a compound bow and arrow.

After fighting the behemoth for 10 minutes, Opel jumped into the muddy water, bearhugged the beast and inched him to the shore.

"It was real heavy, like lifting a refrigerator," said Opel, who ripped his jeans on the arrow sticking from the back of the carp's head during the ruckus. "Once he got out of the water, he started fighting hard. He beat me up pretty good. He definitely got a few licks in."

Opel won the fight -- and the admiration of anglers everywhere who fantasize about landing a monster fish such as his trophy.

Weighed on a certified scale at Worden Food Market in Worden, the huge Asian carp had a 30-inch girth and measured 62 inches long. It obliterated the previous Illinois bowfishing record for bighead carp of 35 pounds, 5 ounces set by John Borgers on June 8, 2006.

According to Duane Chapman, a fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who specializes in carp studies, Opel's catch is the largest on record by a recreational fisherman in the Western Hemisphere.

Chapman said there are only two bigger bighead carp on record in the world. A 93-pounder was captured in a reservoir in northern Texas a few years ago, but it was not caught by an angler and not weighed on a certified scale

Yeah, I saw this on the ULF (ultralight fishing) website.  There's a picture, too.

http://www.ultralitefishing.com/php...1433 

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