Greensboro Man Hooks New State Record Queen Triggerfish

MOREHEAD Town – A Piedmont North Carolina man reeled in a state report queen triggerfish in the course of a recent fishing trip off Wrightsville Seaside.

William Timothy Cox of Greensboro caught the 10-pound, five-ounce fish Might 22 at Identical Ole Hole, located about 40 miles off Wrightsville Seashore. The fish measured thirty inches from the tip of the nose to the suggestion of the tail and had a 23-inch girth.

He was fishing on a private vessel and caught the fish employing lower bait on eighty-pound line examination with a Billfisher Rod and Penn 11414 reel.

This establishes a new state record queen triggerfish no prior state record existed. To create a new state report, the fish must be within reasonable range of the world report and exceptionally significant for North Carolina, as established by N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries workers and a N.C. Saltwater Fishing Tournament Advisory Board.

The globe document queen triggerfish was 14-pounds, three ounces, caught off Cancun, Mexico in 2009.

For more data, contact Carole Willis, N.C. Saltwater Fishing Tournament coordinator with the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries at (252) 808-8081 or Carole.Y.Willis@ncdenr.gov. For a picture of Cox and his catch, go to http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/mf/2011…en-triggerfish.