State Record-Breaking Fish Caught in Southwest Iowa

(Lewis) A Yellow Bullhead caught in Adair County is now in the record books. John Lorenzen, a Fisheries Biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in southwest Iowa, says the fish caught in a farm pond weighed 2.6 pounds and measured 16.5 inches in length. It beat the old record by two-tenths of a pound, caught in the Little River Water Shed Lake near Leon in south central Iowa.

Lorenzen says this catch brings the total number of catfish recorded to up to 50 percent of the available sport fish to catch.

Lorenzen says there are three different species of Bullheads in Iowa. Black Bullheads, Brown Bullheads, and Yellow Bullheads.

This record follows a near-state-record-breaking Black Crappie caught in March in a private farm pond near Atlantic. The fish weighed three pounds, nine ounces, and measured 17.5 inches long. The current state record is from Three Mile Reservoir near Creston. The fish measured 18 inches in length and weighed three pounds, 14 ounces.