9-year-old catches 600-pound sturgeon

10 News Staff, WTSP 12:05 p.m. EDT July 3, 2015

Nine-year-old Kegan Rothman poses with an estimated 600-pound Great White Sturgeon he caught on the Fraser River.(Photo: Great River Fishing)

What a catch! On Monday, June 29, at four feet tall, nine-year-old Kegan Rothman caught an estimated 600-pound Great White Sturgeon on the Fraser River.

The scientific measurement to the fork in the fish"s tail the fork length is 9 feet and 5 inches.

According Great River Fishing, the charter company the boy was on with his dad when he caught the fish, says the fish"s total length was measured at 10 feet and one inch.

While it was impossible to weigh it, charts indicate that its weight is about 600 pounds. It had a 50-inch girth measured below the pectoral fins.

Kegan"s dad told the Globe and Mail his son has been fishing since he was four years old and holds a youth record in the U.S. for the sheepshead fish.

It took Kegan, who weighs just 80 pounds, two hours to reel the fish in.

Watch video of the catch below.

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