By Chad Love

So just what is a quillback carpsucker? Beats me, but some dude fishing a bass tournament in Tennessee just caught the new state record.

From this story on oakridger.com:

A bass tournament angler in east Tennesse reeled in the catch of his life, etching his name into the state record books with a new state record fish last weekend. Brandon Hollaway of Gray, landed a 5-pound, 8-ounce Quillback Carpsucker on Boone Lake Saturday evening. The fish has been certified as a new state record by TWRA biologists. While cranking a Bill Norman DD-22 over a rock pile in 35 feet of water, Holloway felt the fish hit. "I thought I had a 6-to-7 pound largemouth bass," Holloway stated. "I got it up to the top and netted it, and I didn't know what I had.

According to the story, nobody else knew what it was either. Holloway began texting pictures of his unusual catch to other anglers asking what it was, but no one could identify it until they looked it up on the state game and fish agency's website. The, uh, monster quillback carpsucker shattered the previous record of 4lbs. 2oz.

Anyone else ever caught a quillback carpsucker? Or even heard of it?

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from country road wrote 49 weeks 6 days ago

I'm not sure I'd tell anybody if I caught a fish with a moniker like that. The fish doesn't look nearly as strange as its name.

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from Ontario Honker ... wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

World class trash fish angler. Yep, that would look real good on anyone's resume. Heh, heh!

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from Fruguy101 wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

Any record in the books with your name by it is worth having, no matter the kind of fish it is.

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from theflytroll wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

There's a variety of carpsuckers here in Tennessee, many of them living alongside each together. It's fun not knowing which one I'm gonna catch when my fly hits the water. I just caught a golden one the other day. Beautiful...for a carp.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

Trash fish fer sure...

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from NJ219bands wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

I caught carpsuckers in the Delaware River with my homemade corn meal bait.

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from Bassinbick wrote 39 weeks 4 days ago

I live in maine and we dont have carp, but thats a cool Sight all right!

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from Ontario Honker ... wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

World class trash fish angler. Yep, that would look real good on anyone's resume. Heh, heh!

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from country road wrote 49 weeks 6 days ago

I'm not sure I'd tell anybody if I caught a fish with a moniker like that. The fish doesn't look nearly as strange as its name.

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from Fruguy101 wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

Any record in the books with your name by it is worth having, no matter the kind of fish it is.

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from theflytroll wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

There's a variety of carpsuckers here in Tennessee, many of them living alongside each together. It's fun not knowing which one I'm gonna catch when my fly hits the water. I just caught a golden one the other day. Beautiful...for a carp.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

Trash fish fer sure...

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from NJ219bands wrote 49 weeks 5 days ago

I caught carpsuckers in the Delaware River with my homemade corn meal bait.

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from Bassinbick wrote 39 weeks 4 days ago

I live in maine and we dont have carp, but thats a cool Sight all right!

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