OZARK, Ark. — One teen is now in the Arkansas State Record Fish listing after he landed a state record fish back in April.
Officials with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission shared that 17-year-old Jeared Barnett had been growing bored with trying to catch catfish in the Arkansas River, so he decided to fish below Lock and Dam 12, the Ozark Pool.
He had switched to his crappie rod and attached a curly tail grub with black and red flake on a one-sixteenth-ounce jig head, a setup he says works well in April for white bass as they’re starting their spring run on the river…