“Congratulations to Maxton resident Alphonso Jackson, who broke a 36-year-old freshwater fish state record on June 10 after landing a 2-pound, 1 ounce redbreast sunfish from the Lumber River in Wagram,” the commission said on Facebook. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission confirmed any fish considered for the North Carolina Freshwater Fish State Record must be caught with a cane pole or rod and reel, weighed on a scale certified by the state’s Department of Agriculture, witnessed by another observer, and identified by a fisheries biologist from the commission. Man fishing in North Carolina sets record with 2 pound catch. Jackson has shared his passion with his children, aged 23, 18, and 17, who also witnessed his big catch. Jackson admits he is an avid fisherman and his passion stems from Jacobs who taught him how to fish when he was a child. “I’d like to thank my daddy for teaching me how to catch fish and where to catch fish,” he said. Jackson credited his father, Johnny Jacobs, for passing on his fishing spot along the Lumber River. No, Climate Change Is Not Reducing Global Fish Catch He used a cricket as bait and caught the sunfish, which defeated Stanley’s epic Bladen County catch by 5 ounces, according to the scales at Safeway Market in Maxton. “We started fishing in a pond but weren’t having any luck, so I said to my kids, ‘Let’s go back to where I learned how to fish’ and this is what we caught,” Jackson said in a statement.Ĭongratulations to Maxton resident Alphonso Jackson, who broke a 36-year-old freshwater fish state record on June 10 after landing a 2-pound, 1-ounce redbreast sunfish from the Lumber River in Wagram. Jackson said he made the catch not long after deciding to return to where his father taught him to fish. The sunfish weighed an impressive 2 pounds, 1 ounce and it defeated previous record holder Ronald Stanley’s 1 pound, 12 ounce fish caught in Big Swamp, on May 29, 1983. Maxton resident Alphonso Jackson, 43, broke a 36-year-old freshwater fish state record when he caught a huge redbreast sunfish in Wagram, 100 miles east of Charlotte. A North Carolina fisherman’s avid angling earned him the coveted title of state record holder on June 10.
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