Mr. Volk insists that he hooked his walleye legally on a jig, but concedes he cannot prove it. As online blowback spread, Mr. Volk tried to make his case on NodakAngler and in Facebook posts. “I’m the lucky angler who caught the new state record walleye!” he posted on the message board. And in North Dakota, a walleye record that stood for 59 years carried a taint of controversy, with no photos to corroborate it. “If this fish was caught in 1985, nobody would know whether or not it was snagged or caught legitly.”

Source: New York Times May 25, 2019 09:00 UTC