Record carp waiting to be accepted
See fish. Catch fish. That’s the formula Fort Collins resident Ben Noel used to capture a 44-pound, 8-ounce grass carp Tuesday at a private lake not far from home. “I saw a whole pod of fish and cast out into the middle of them,” Noel said of strategy with a weightless 2-inch, white Mr. Twister. “When the line went tight, I set the hook.” The 46-inch-long fish was weighed on a certified scale and submitted to the Colorado Division of Wildlife for verification. Noel’s fish exceeds the current 42-pound mark for grass carp taken seven years ago from a pond in Jefferson County. If accepted as a record, it would be the second largest of any species in the Colorado book, trailing a 46-pound, 14.6-ounce lake trout from Blue Mesa Reservoir in 2003.
