Image credit: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency .
Coye Price was desirous to catch one thing massive after his 11-year-old sister Caitlin hooked a 40-pound striper and his 8-year-old sister Farrah reeled in a 58-pound blue catfish some time again.
- Associated Press
- Last Updated: May 15, 2020, 12:46 PM IST
A nine-year-old boy in Tennessee turned the third little one in his household to catch a monster fish, reeling in an 80-pound sturgeon that outweighed him by far.
Coye Price was desirous to catch one thing massive after his 11-year-old sister Caitlin hooked a 40-pound striper and his 8-year-old sister Farrah reeled in a 58-pound blue catfish some time again, the Tennessee Wildlife and Resource Agency stated Tuesday in a Facebook publish.
“Coye had been saying, ‘Man, I don’t don’t have anything on these women, I’ve acquired to catch a giant fish,’” Coye’s father, Chris, advised the Tennessean. “So not only did he catch a bigger fish than they had, but sturgeon are rare, which is the other cool part about it.”
Coye, who weighs simply 55-pounds, was concentrating on catfish in Old Hickory Lake earlier than he hooked the sturgeon. It took him 15 minutes to get the fish within the boat, the place they weighed it and took some footage earlier than returning it to the water, the Tennessean reported.
The endangered lake sturgeon are a few of the largest and longest-living fish in Tennessee, the state’s wildlife company stated.
There have been efforts to revive the species, which may develop as much as eight toes and dwell as much as 150 years, after their inhabitants declined attributable to causes together with overfishing and habitat loss.
The company stated greater than 220,000 lake sturgeon have been stocked into the Cumberland River and parts of the Tennessee River since 2000.
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