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Alex Dietz of Bend was fly fishing with an egg pattern on the Deschutes River outside Warm Springs on Dec. 19, 2021 when he hooked a 5 pound 12 oz, 24-inch long mountain whitefish with a 14 inch girth. "My fishing buddy Jason Schreiber saw that I had a big fish on and came over to check out what was going on," Dietz explained. "We took pictures of it and kind of laughed about it for awhile. I was getting ready to let the fish go when we realized this thing could be a state record." Dietz is almost exclusively a catch and release angler but he kept this fish, bringing it to Newport Avenue Market in Bend for an official weigh-in on an Oregon Dept of Agriculture scale as required under the record rules. ODFW certified the fish as the new state record mountain whitefish on Jan. 7, 2022 (beating the previous record, a 4 lb 14 oz mountain whitefish caught at Crane Prairie Reservoir in 1994 by Roger A Massey). The mountain whitefish might actually be a world record as the

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