The fish was a Bighead carp, an invasive species from Asia that wreaks havoc across North American Waterways.
At a whopping 118 pounds — around the same size as an average 14-year-old boy — his specimen smashed the state record of 90 lbs set in 2005.
Based on the weight of its ovaries, experts estimated that the filter feeder — estimated to be 40 years old — could’ve been pregnant with up to millions of eggs.In accordance, Baker’s colossal carp earned him praise from the ODWC, which urges anglers to target this species due to the environmental devastation they cause by eating “large quantities of zooplankton, aquatic insect larvae and adults.”
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