A Newport man has landed a new state record for a flathead catfish, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported. Codie Carlson was bowfishing early in the morning of June 29 at Plum Creek in Monroe County when he took in the fish that weighed 64.

A Michigan fisherman pulled in a record-setting flathead catfish in late June, shattering the state's previous record-setting fish.

Codie Carlson, an angler from Newport, was bowfishing in Plum Creek early in the morning on Sunday, June 29, when he caught a flathead catfish that weighed 64.46 pounds and measured 45 inches, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.