 Merchat was issued a state record certificate on July 1st. The previous record for this species of sucker was 6.16 pounds. That was caught back in 2008 from Woodland Park Pond in Kalispell. There's actually nine different species of sucker in Montana, the third largest family of fish, behind only the minnow and salmonoids. As for what Wade was using, well, you can never go wrong with a night crawler, and Wade definitely went right on this one.