Sea monster caught in Lake of the Ozarks

Fishing this spring is getting off to a strange start. Just last month, a woman caught (if you believe the video, which I’m not sure I do) a goldfish in Troost Lake. And the Missouri Department of Conservation announced today that a late-April fishing trip in the Lake of the Ozarks netted an even larger, more significant catch.

The MDC says Gene Swope and his two grandsons, Justin Swope and Garron Grass, were out snagging — when you catch fish by hooking their flesh rather than through the mouth — for paddlefish, when  they felt an unusual pull. The anglers battled the aqua-beast for 35 minutes before they landed the behemoth: a 4-foot-8, 106-pound bighead carp. Yeah, that’s a state record.