Following three decades of snagging, a Sparta man has finally pulled in a new state-record fish.
Harvey Smith was fishing when he pulled in a 6-pound, 2-ounce white sucker from Roark Creek in Taney County March 27, according to Missouri Department of Conservation.
"I was actually going to turn the fish loose,” Smith said. “I didn’t think anything of it, but everybody stopped me saying that it was a huge fish. I guess I plan to get it mounted.”
The previous record under alternative methods was a 5-pound, 1-ounce fish caught from Lake Taneycomo.