{"id":22354,"date":"2018-06-13T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=22354"},"modified":"2018-06-12T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:10:23","slug":"angler-catches-record-warmouth-in-charles-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/06\/13\/angler-catches-record-warmouth-in-charles-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Angler Catches Record Warmouth in Charles County\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dezi Collins Hauls in 10.72-ounce Fish<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>A 24-year-old St. Mary’s County man is now the official state record holder for the warmouth in Maryland\u2019s nontidal waters. Avid angler Dezi Collins of Mechanicsville reeled in his record 10.72 ounce catch June 11 at Gilbert Run Lake in Charles County.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Collins, along with a few friends, were fishing for black bass when something unusual hit his 5-inch Senko plastic worm. \u201cThis thing really had some weight,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biologists from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> verified the species and its weight was certified by Thompson\u2019s Seafood.\u00a0The catch beats the previous 9.76-ounce record held since 2009 by Don Perantoni.<\/p>\n

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The warmouth, or lepomis gulosus<\/em>, looks similar to a rock bass and is a member of the sunfish family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Collins kept his record fish alive and plans to release it back into Gilbert Run Lake. \u201cI\u2019m not greedy — I\u2019d love for someone to experience this, too,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n

The department maintains\u00a0state records<\/a>\u00a0in four divisions \u2013 Atlantic, Chesapeake, Nontidal and Invasive \u2013 and awards plaques to anglers who achieve record catches. Fish caught from privately-owned, fee-fishing waters are ineligible.<\/p>\n

Anglers who think they have a potential record catch should fill-out the\u00a0state record application<\/a>\u00a0and 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 by staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dezi Collins Hauls in 10.72-ounce Fish A 24-year-old St. Mary’s County man is now the official state record holder for the warmouth in Maryland\u2019s nontidal waters. Avid angler Dezi Collins of Mechanicsville reeled in his record 10.72 ounce catch June 11 at Gilbert Run Lake in Charles County.\u00a0\u00a0 Collins, along with a few friends, were  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":[2924,4501,2942,3069,4500],"class_list":["post-22354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-charles-county","tag-dezi-collins","tag-st-marys-county","tag-state-fishing-record","tag-warmouth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354","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=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22367,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions\/22367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}