Monster walleye breaks 60-year-old North Dakota state record

BISMARCK, N.D. — As Neal Leier remembers it, they had barely drifted away from the Fox Island Park boat ramp on Friday morning, May 18, for a day of walleye fishing on the Missouri River in Bismarck when his brother, Leon, noticed fish on the depth finder screen.

Leier, of Bismarck, quickly grabbed a pole and tossed out a jig tipped with a plastic tail.

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