A 17-pound, 8-ounce bluefish is pending as a new Alabama state record, according to the OBA Community Website in Orange Beach Alabama. Rustin Musgrove, fishing from the beach near Perdido Pass, caught the more than 37-inch-long bluefish on a Carolina-rigged frozen finger mullet around sunset on Jan. 26. Even after sitting on ice for 60 hours while Musgrove sought out certified scales, the fish beat the two-decade-old existing record by 4 ounces. The existing state record weighed 17 pounds, 4 ounces and was caught by Alicia Walimaa in the summer of 2004.