Some anglers travel thousands of miles and spend big money to catch a world record fish.
But a south Florida man simply stepped outside the back door of his lakefront home to land the new world record butterfly peacock bass. The fish weighed 11.5 pounds. After being weighed and measured, the fish was released. Mark Krizner from Weston, west of Fort Laderdale in Broward County, was casting a plastic worm for largemouth bass in Country Isles Lake when he saw the big peacock move from deep water onto a shallow ledge before disappearing back into the depths. Krizner made a cast, retrieved the worm with a rapid, jerking action, and the fish hit.