Scott Skafar, a fisherman from Valparaiso, Indiana, caught two burbots from Lake Michigan that broke Indiana’s previous state record from 1990.
Scott Skafar, of Valparaiso, Indiana, broke the state's 32-year-old burbot fishing record twice on Dec. 30, 2022.
The first burbot Skafar caught weighed 10.2 pounds, which surpassed the state’s previous burbot fishing record from 1990 by 2.5 pounds.Burbots are ray-finned freshwater fish."Adult burbot primarily feed on other fish species such as round goby, sculpin, and yellow perch," the Indiana DNR wrote in its press release."Burbot are also sometimes called eelpout, lawyer, or poor man’s lobster and have a single chin-barbel or whisker, similar to catfish whiskers.
The Lake Michigan shoreline in Indiana measures 43 miles, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
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