Laken Fleming (right) and her father, Curtis Fleming, proudly show off a potential IGFA record-breaking common carp. Laken caught the 14.25-pound carp on a fly rod, Sunday, June 5, 2016. (Ben Queen photo)
By Julie Perine
Laken Fleming, of Bridgeport, W.Va., landed a massive carp at Stonewall Jackson Lake, Sunday, June 5, 2016. The 33-inch, 14.25-pound common carp – caught on Fleming’s custom-made six-weight fly rod with a hand-tied cicada fly – is unofficially, but very likely, a new International Game Fish Association (IGFA) world record.
“When I had him on the line, I knew it wasn’t a guarantee that it was going to be a world record, but once I got him in the boat I could see it was evident this could be a contender,” said the 20-year-old West Virginia...