According to officials from the wildlife department, a man from Georgia made his fishing excursion far more thrilling when he caught a fish that set a new state record.
According to a press statement issued by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources on February 21, Emerson Mulhall, a fisherman from Cumming who is twenty years old, was fishing on Lake Burton when he felt a tug on his line. According to the officials, the fish that he got on his reel was a yellow perch that tied the state record.
According to the department, the specimen that Mulhall caught weighed a total of 2 pounds and 9 ounces. According to officials, he tied a state record for yellow perch that had been set in 2013.
According to details provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the capture made by the twenty-year-old angler weighted close to three pounds.
According to wildlife experts, the yellow perch can reach a maximum weight of three pounds, but it often weighs less than one pound. According to the department, the brilliant orange-finned fish can be found in cold lakes, rivers, and ponds. They can also be found in ponds.
The agency stated that during the early spring months, it is typically more frequent to catch “trophy-size fish” at Lake Burton.