Huge World Record Paddlefish Caught in Montana With Bow and Arrow
Fishing has been pretty slow for me this year. I have not had much success landing fish. Yet, Montana has seen multiple state records broken this year. Back in May, the Montana state record walleye was caught on Holter Lake near Helena, and weighed 18.02 pounds. In March, a new state record longnose sucker was caught, weighing 3.42 pounds. In April, a Billings man broke the Montana state record for largemouth bass, with a catch weighing 9.6 pounds. And, lets not forget the enormous Montana state record brown trout, caught near Conrad, that weighed a whopping 32.43 pounds.
It had been a tough season for paddlefish in Eastern Montana when on June 8 Sidney resident Steve Harris Jr. packed his archery gear to the Yellowstone River.
Harris is an avid outdoorsman whether fishing, hunting or searching for agates, and paddlefish have been a longtime passion, he said, with a streak of catching at least one per year stretching back 30 years. In the past his haul often totaled four per season between Montana and North Dakota.
âTheyâre just a blast to fish for especially when you get good runoff,â he said in an interview Tuesday.
Steve Harris Jr. of Sidney holds up his bowfishing world record 92-pound paddlefish taken on June 8.
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