American Damian Cook broke the record by catching the largest snakehead fish caught in northern Maryland on Wednesday, with a length of 36 inches, equivalent to about 91 cm, and a weight of 21 pounds, equivalent to 9.52 kilograms, breaking the previous record of 19.9 pounds.

I checked the scale 3 times

Cook told FOX 5 DC: “I caught a lot of big fish, but nothing like that.. When I weighed it, I checked the scale 3 times to make sure it wasn’t broken, I couldn’t believe it.”

Cook, who lives in Rhodesdale, caught fish while kayaking in the Chesapeake, where northern snakehead fish are very popular, especially in the tidal river system in Dorchester County. Native to Asia, the northern snakehead is considered an invasive species because it has no natural predators in the United States.

Voracious aquatic predators have recently become popular in sport fishing in Maryland, and Cook says he has been hunting snakeheads for the past 7 years. All I can do.”

Last year, a fisherman from the US state of Mississippi caught an 80-year-old crocodile, weighing 410 kilograms, in a lake in South Florida. Not the largest caught in Florida.

The record for the longest alligator caught goes to another alligator measuring 14 feet 3.5 inches long, which was caught in Lake Washington in Brevard County and was the heaviest in Orange Lake in Alachua County.