Boredom leads to state record skipjack for Ozark teen

Boredom leads to state record skipjack for Ozark teen • Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

OZARK — Jeared Barnett was growing bored with trying to catch catfish in the Arkansas River on a Wednesday in early April. He was fishing below Lock and Dam 12, the Ozark Pool. He loves catfishing, he says, but he decided enough of that after only a couple of blue catfish. What he landed instead put the 17-year-old’s name in the Arkansas State Record Fish listing. Barnett landed an 18¼-inch, 2-pound, 14-ounce skipjack herring. Barnett had switch…

Boredom leads to state record skipjack for Ozark teen

OZARK — Jeared Barnett was growing bored with trying to catch catfish in the Arkansas River on a Wednesday in early April. He was fishing below Lock and Dam 12, the Ozark Pool. He loves catfishing, he says, but he decided enough of that after only a couple of blue catfish. What he landed instead […] The post Boredom leads to state record skipjack for Ozark teen appeared first on Stuttgart Daily Leader.