Zach Joseph of Ocean Springs set a new Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional-tackle fishing record with a bigeye tuna weighing 93 pounds, 5.6 ounces.
Zach Joseph of Ocean Springs set a new Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional-tackle fishing record with a bigeye tuna weighing 93 pounds, 5.6 ounces.
Jacob Edwards-Faucette of Pascagoula set a new Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional-tackle fishing record with a yellowtail snapper weighing 7 pounds, 3.52 ounces.
Pascagoula’s Derrick Saucier landed this 4.8-ounce scrawled filefish to set a new Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional-tackle fishing record.
Mike Salvetti of Ocean Springs landed in the Mississippi fishing records book by catching this 14-pound, 8-ounce tilefish.
This belted sandfish only weighed 1 ounce, but it was enough to put Biloxi’s Eddie Kopszywa IV in the Mississippi recreational saltwater conventional-tackle records book.
Five Mississippi saltwater conventional-tackle fishing records have been certified byt the Commission on Marine Resources, the agency reported today (July 21).
Catches added to the record book include a bigeye tuna, a yellowtail snapper, a scrawled filefish, a tilefish and a belted sandfish.
The state’s top bigeye tuna weighed 93 pounds, 5.6 ounces and was caught by Ocean Springs’ Zach Joseph on June 5.
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