{"id":15443,"date":"2017-06-13T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=15443"},"modified":"2017-06-18T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T16:26:21","slug":"record-white-catfish-caught-in-southern-potomac-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/06\/13\/record-white-catfish-caught-in-southern-potomac-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Record White Catfish Caught in Lower Potomac River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lexington Park Resident Sets Standard with 8.27-Pound Catch<\/em><\/p>\n

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> confirmed a St. Mary’s County man has set a new state fishing record for white catfish. The fish was recognized as a game\u00a0fish a few years ago, but until now nobody had broken the seven-pound minimum weight\u00a0to be eligible for state records.<\/p>\n

Jacob Vosburgh, 20, of Lexington Park,\u00a0caught the fish recorded at 8.27 pounds June 1 in the lower\u00a0Potomac River. The white catfish was\u00a023 inches in length.<\/p>\n

Using bloodworms as bait and a Carolina sinking rig\u2013designed for finding fish on the river bottom\u2013Vosburgh caught several small fish that morning but decided to be a little more patient and see what else was biting. Vosburgh, who was fishing with a friend, would see his patience pay off\u00a0when he made his record catch.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven before we took it out of the water, just judging by the size of its head we knew it was state record,\u201d said Vosburgh.<\/p>\n

Veronica Beck of Crabknockers, a seafood market\u00a0in Leonardtown, certified the fish\u2019s weight.<\/p>\n

The department maintains state records for sport fish<\/a> in four divisions\u2013Atlantic, Chesapeake, Nontidal and Invasive\u2013and awards plaques to anglers who achieve record catches. Fish caught from privately-owned, fee-fishing waters are not eligible for record consideration.<\/p>\n

Anglers who think they have a potential record catch should download and fill out the state record application<\/a> and call 443-569-1381 or 410-260-8325. The department suggests the fish be immersed in ice water to preserve its weight until it can be checked, confirmed and certified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lexington Park Resident Sets Standard with 8.27-Pound Catch The Maryland Department of Natural Resources confirmed a St. Mary’s County man has set a new state fishing record for white catfish. The fish was recognized as a game\u00a0fish a few years ago, but until now nobody had broken the seven-pound minimum weight\u00a0to be eligible for state  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[3220,2926,2942,3069,3417],"class_list":["post-15443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-leonardtown","tag-potomac-river","tag-st-marys-county","tag-state-fishing-record","tag-white-catfish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15471,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions\/15471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}