RECORD FISH

Hugh Newman of Broken Bow caught a monster 66 lb. 3 oz. smallmouth buffalo in Broken Bow Reservoir on rod and reel using line testing just 8 pounds.

A 3-pound, 4-ounce triploid crappie on rod and reel and a 56-pound, 6-ounce bigmouth buffalo taken by bow have been approved as new records.

Strike King and FLW Pro Cody Meyer has caught a 10.80 pound spotted bass that is the potential world record.

The new "alternative method" record hybrid striped bass caught by McArtor on Oct. 31 weighed 9-pounds, 1-ounce with a length of 27 inches.

In a relatively obscure pocket of Big Swamp, in Robeson County, 12-year-old Elijah Crabtree set a newly established freshwater fish state record on June 25.