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Ed Godfrey James Lukehart of Edmond and his wife, Caitlin, were looking to just catch some fish for dinner Sunday when they booked a guided paddlefishing trip on Keystone Lake.He not only came home from his first spoonbill trip with a paddlefish for the smoker, but a world record to boot. Lukehart snagged a paddlefish weighing 146 pounds, 11 ounces, beating the world record by more than two pounds and the state record by 3 pounds, 11 ounces."We got out there in the morning and kind of joked around about catching a state record," Lukehart said. "I had no idea that there was even a world record fish out there. And let alone did I know I was fishing with the guy who had the state record. Until I caught it, I had no idea."The Lukeharts were fishing with Reel Time Guide Service owner Jeremiah Mefford, of Kiefer, who was the previous record-holder. Mefford snagged a 143-pound paddlefish on Keystone Lake on May 23, breaking the previous state record of 132 pounds, 8 ounces, which was caught in April 2018 in the Arkansas River upstream from Keystone Lake.The previous world record paddlefish, often called spoonbills, was a 144-pounder caught in Kansas, state wildlife officials said.James Lukehart, an avid hunter, said his wife is the "real fisherwoman" of the family. She snagged the first spoonbill on Sunday morning, an 82-pounder."We thought that was monstrous," he said. "She was wore out."Then the real monster surfaced. Lukehart snagged a paddlefish that measured 70.5 inches in length with a 45-inch girth."A fish that size, I never had any intention of keeping it," he said.They motored to a cove and was able to keep the fish alive in the water with a rope tied to its fin. State wildlife officials arrived 45 minutes later and officially weighed and measured the fish, then successfully released it into the lake.Once the Wildlife Department posted news of the record catch on Facebook, Lukehart became an instant celebrity."It's been hours of Facebook tags and emails," Lukehart said Sunday evening. "I've had requests from the Outdoor Channel to do interviews. It's been wild. It's been a hell of a experience."Even though Lukehart's fish is officially the state and world record, there is evidence of at least one bigger paddlefish in Keystone Lake.In February, Mefford helped a client snag a 157-pound spoonbill, but it could not be counted as a state or world record because it was snagged on a designated catch-and-release day only. Therefore, the fish could not be kept and officially weighed.

Ed Godfrey James Lukehart of Edmond and his wife, Caitlin, were looking to just catch some fish for dinner Sunday when they booked a guided paddlefishing trip on Keystone Lake.He not only came home from his first spoonbill trip with a paddlefish for the smoker, but a world record to boot. Lukehart snagged a paddlefish weighing 146 pounds, 11 ounces, beating the world record by more than two pounds and the state record by 3 pounds, 11 ounces."We got out there in the morning and kind of joked around about catching a state record," Lukehart said. "I had no idea that there was even a world...

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