Everyone has their own idea of the size it takes to reach gator-trout status. We’d say this North Carolina seatrout definitely qualifies.
Catherine Jones caught this massive 11-pound, 3-ounce spotted seatrout on Nov. 20 from Pungo Creek, a tributary of the Pamlico River. It ate a live menhaden she was fishing from a dock.
Jones’s fish is a pending IGFA Women’s 20-lb. line class record. The North Carolina state record of 12 pounds, 8 ounces was a Neuse River fish caught last February by Todd Spangler. The IGFA all-tackle world record stands at 17 pounds, 7 ounces for a fish caught by Craig Carson off Ft. Pierce, Fla. In 1995.
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