This 7-pound Texas state record goldfish was caught by John Wiseman while he was night-fishing for crappie and catfish at Lake Tawakoni in Texas. He previously caught the lake's record 41-pound Bigmouth buffalo with dough bait made from Big Red and Wheaties. A few days later the fishing slowed...

"I hadn’t caught a fish for about three hours when he hit, and I didn’t think much of it," Wiseman told LSON. "He felt like another 6 or 7-pound carp, until he came up and I saw his fins."

He was planning to release it but one of the marina workers told him the goldfish might be a record so kept it and weighed it out at 7.24 pounds. The previous record was about five pounds.

“While it’s prestigious, it’s hilarious,” he said. “You live your whole life wanting to catch a record and then you catch a damn goldfish.”

A few days later game wardens checked confirmed the goldfish identification certified its place in the record books.

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