Thomas Woo of Wilmington recently landed a white trevally weighing nearly 20 pounds off Wrightsville Beach, establishing a new state record for the species.
Woo landed the 19-pound, 3.2-ounce white trevally, or Pseudocaranx dentex, and also known as striped jack, on May 8. He was about 55 miles offshore, south of the New Hanover County town in 150 feet of water when the fish struck his slow-pitch jig.
The fish measured 32.2 inches fork length, which is from the tip of the nose to the fork in the tail, and had a total length of 37.8 inches…