Dad bowfishing with son breaks Kansas’ record for longnose gar. How big was it?

Michael Barnett was bowfishing with his son when he snagged a fish so big that he wasn’t sure one arrow would be enough to reel it in.

Dad bowfishing with son breaks Kansas’ record for longnose gar. How big was it?. Michael Barnett was bowfishing with his son when he snagged a fish so big that he wasn’t sure one arrow would be enough to reel it in. “When I saw it come out of the water, I knew it was big,” Barnett told the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. To be sure the big catch didn’t get away, the Baxter Springs man recalled having his son shoot it with a second arrow. They would soon learn that this fish was about to break a state record for biggest longnose gar caught in Kansas, according to a May 29 news release. That record had stood for over 50 years. “We weighed it, looked up the state record, and realized it weighed a bit more,” Barnett, of Baxter Springs, told wildlife officials. His fish — caught April 18 from the Spring River in southeast Kansas — wei...