 Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks verified the record fish, which weighed in at 6.72 pounds and measured 25 and a quarter inches. Merchette was issued a state record certificate on July 1st. The previous record for the species of sucker was 6.16 pounds. That was caught back in 2008 from Woodland Park Pond in Kalispell. There's actually nine different species of sucker in Montana, the third largest family of fish, behind only the minnow and salmonoids. As for what Wade was using,