{"id":145487,"date":"2018-05-21T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145487"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:23:00","slug":"whopper-walleye-caught-new-state-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145487","title":{"rendered":"Whopper walleye caught, new state record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145488\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walleyewhopper-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walleyewhopper-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walleyewhopper-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walleyewhopper.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/walleyewhopper-248x175.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s longest-standing fish record has fallen.<\/p>\n<p>The state Game and Fish Department says Bismarck angler Neal Leier hauled in a 15-pound, 13-ounce walleye from the Missouri River near Fox Island on Friday, May 18, 2018. That broke the record by one ounce.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record had stood for nearly six decades \u2014 a fish from Wood Lake landed by Blair Chapman of Minnewaukan in January 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record had stood for nearly six decades \u2014 a fish from Wood Lake landed by Blair Chapman of Minnewaukan in January 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Many anglers believed that wasn\u2019t the true record \u2014 that Chapman didn\u2019t catch the fish but instead found it dead. His son, Blair Chapman Jr., in the past has publicly said that the fish was found dead. The family told The Associated Press in 2014 that it was no longer interested in discussing the story.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo:\u00a0 North Dakota Game and Fish Department via AP)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota\u2019s longest-standing fish record has fallen. The state Game and Fish Department says Bismarck angler Neal Leier hauled in a 15-pound, 13-ounce walleye from the Missouri River near Fox Island on Friday, May 18, 2018. That broke the record by one ounce. The previous record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145490,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145487\/revisions\/145490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}