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<\/a>15-year-old John Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n
Morgan caught the record fish in a farm pond owned by a friend of his grandfather.<\/p>\n
He had agreed to help remove a snapping turtle from the pond and was invited to bring a fishing pole along. Morgan didn\u2019t know that this favor would lead to a new state record.<\/p>\n
After 45 minutes, Morgan had fished a little, caught the turtle and decided to fish for another 10 minutes before leaving. He cast again and after a 20 minute struggle, he had the fish on shore.<\/p>\n
A sophomore at Polk County High School, Morgan fishes several days a week, mostly in the Hiwassee River. \u201cI just love being outside, hunting and fishing,\u201d said Morgan. Morgan has already dropped the fish off at a taxidermist.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very excited for this young man to find himself in the record book,\u201d said TWRA Region III fisheries program manager Mark Thurman. \u201cWith so many records being broken these days, we look forward to seeing what the next state record fish is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From TWRA Region III Office in Crossville Crossville, TN – The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has confirmed a new state record rainbow trout, caught by 15-year-old Benton resident John Morgan in Polk County on Friday, June 17th. The fish weighed 18 pounds, 8 ounces. The fish measured 32 inches long and 22 and one-fourth inches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[11026,3861,974,11028,2327,4190,11029,6157,8696,11027,608,973],"class_list":["post-11419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-benton-tn","tag-crossville-tn","tag-fishing","tag-fort-patrick-henry-reservoir","tag-hiwassee-river","tag-john-morgan","tag-mark-thurman","tag-polk-county","tag-rainbow-trout","tag-ronnie-rowland","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11420,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions\/11420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Crossville, TN<\/strong> – The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has confirmed a new state record rainbow trout, caught by 15-year-old Benton resident John Morgan in Polk County on Friday, June 17th.<\/p>\n![\"15-year-old](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/15-year-old-John-Morgan-.jpg\" "\\"15-year-old")
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