BEAVER LAKE PRIZE — Carol Anne Schumacher, Ellendale, with the 22 1/4-inch large mouth bass caught June 3 off a dock on the west end of Beaver Lake. The state record for a large mouth bass is 23 inches. (Submitted photo)

By KATHY PAULSEN

Staff Writer

There are fish stories and there are fish stories. But, this particular “tall tail” can be proved, just by looking at that tail!

Carol Schumacher surprised everyone when she landed a large mouth bass at Beaver Lake. Fishing with her husband, Joe, and daughter Lexi, who is only 11 months old, Schumacher was able to reel in this prize fish.

The bass, which they measured at 22 1/4 inches in length, was caught off of the dock of Chuck and Jean Groth, who live on the west end of Beaver Lake on Friday, June 3rd.

Schumacher and her husband quickly took the fish to Tom's Taxidermy, in Clarks Grove, so that it could be mounted. They intended to have it weighed by a state certified scale, but were so excited that they forgot to. 

They were going to try and get it weighed before Tom got busy working on it. And now that they know the state record for a large mouth bass is 23 inches, they plan to have someone from the state certify the length of it as well.

Schumacher is 21 years old and has been fishing since she was a little girl.

Both she and Joe wanted to get this "prize fish" mounted to remember this remarkable fishing expedition at Beaver Lake.

It sounds like there have been a lot of exciting times for Carol and her family at Beaver Lake. Actually her grandma, Peg, owned cabin #40 up until a few years ago.

We congratulate her on this prize catch and we wish her many more wonderful days of fishing!