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Virginia State Record
Spadefish
A
13-pound, 5-ounce spadefish caught on May 29th 2006 by Michael K.
Hanhart of Huddleston has been certified as the new Virginia
state record by the Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament.
Hanhart caught his fish while fishing for spadefish at Wolf Trap
Light in the Chesapeake Bay. The spadefish, which measured 23.75
inches in length and had a girth of 26.5 inches, was fooled by a
piece of clam being fished under a cork float. Hanhart and his
fishing partner, Wayne Harvey, were chumming with clam and drifting
their baits back to the structure. The prior state record of 13
pounds was caught at the Cell in the Chesapeake Bay by Otis Tribble
of Topping. Tribble caught his fish on September 19, 1988. |
