Nice fish, I'm betting that North Dakota is going to see a new state record within the next 5 years as long as the corps. doesn't do anything stupid.
Pretty sure "we've" been saying that for at least the past 10 years.
Like you, I have to believe there's at least a couple of eyes in the state that would break the record if caught with a belly full of eggs. Probably a few in Sak alone, another couple in Oahe and Devils, and maybe even a sprinkling of pigs in the prairie lakes that have been stocked over the past 20 years.
The trick is to getting a hook into one of them. They didn't get that old by biting on just anything we toss into their face.