MIDDLETOWN — An area man has officially broken the state record after catching a fish.
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The Ohio Division of Wildlife said in a social media post that Jesse Miller of Middletown set the new state record for hybrid crappie last month.
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He caught his hybrid crappie on April 1. The fish weighed 4.27 pounds, measured over 18 inches long with a girth of 16 inches, according to the social media post.
Miller caught it while fishing near the Middletown Dam on the Great Miami River.
He used a spinning rod spooled with six-pound test monofilament line and offered a minnow below a bobber.
“This fish marks the first entry into Ohio’s new state record fish category for hybrid crappie,” said the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
Two fisheries from Wildlife District 5 in Xenia confirmed the identification of a hybrid crappie.
They noted that hybrids are not unusual in water containing both species.
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