In the 45 years that the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department has been keeping track of record-sized fish, nobody has ever seen one heavier than Darren Ouelette's 44-pound, six-ounce common carp. Ouelette first sighted the massive fish swimming near some flooded trees in Lake Champlain on May 20. After the bowfisherman arrowed the carp, it took him 20 minutes to bring it in. “When Darren finally got it in close, I tried to net it but I could only fit its head in the net,” said Taylor Patterson, who was bowfishing with Ouelette at the time. “I ended up just grabbing it in the mouth by...
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