Missouri Angler Setting Arkansas Records

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – D. Victor Waits of Holts Summit, Mo., is making a career of setting state fish records in Arkansas.

He holds the state record for river redhorse (8 pounds, 2 ounces) and shovelnose sturgeon (5 pounds), both taken from the Spring River. He recently added golden redhorse and northern hog sucker – again from the Spring River.

The golden redhorse – 1 pound, 2 ounces – was enticed by worms May 27. The northern hog sucker, also 1 pound, 2 ounces, fell for worms, too. Both fish were caught upstream from Hardy, in the same...