KENT COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) – A Lowell angler has set a new Michigan state record after catching a gizzard shad in the Grand River, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Sedrick Neinhuis caught the fish, which weighed 4.45 pounds and measured 20.3 inches long, while spincasting on the Grand River in Kent County on the afternoon of April 22.
The catch surpasses the previous state-record gizzard shad, which weighed 4.12 pounds and measured 21 inches. That fish was caught in 1996 on Lake St. Clair using baitcasting equipment.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said fisheries biologist Matt Diana, who works out of Plainwell with the agency’s Southern Lake Michigan Fisheries Management Unit, verified the fish as a new state record…