Time for my “annual report” on state record fish in the past year. As with most years there was some state record activity and there were some surprises! Surface Spearfishing There were no fish entered for surface spearfishing records in 2017. Underwater Spearfishing We had four fish certified as new underwater spearfishing state records in the past year. The smallest of those was a whopping 1 ounce alewife taken from Lake McConaughy. In September, a 10 ounce shortnose gar was …
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I again have a few state record applications to clear off my desk; this is the time of year when they are mostly spear-fishing and bow-fishing records. Let’s go underwater to start: Underwater Spearfishing Three applications for state record fish taken by underwater spearfishing are in the stack. All of those fish were taken in July, let me start with the first taken on July 6. . . . Dylan Trauernicht of Gering was doing some diving on a private …
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