Casperite Chris Bobo, 34, broke his own state record for longnose sucker with a fish weighing 2 pounds and 11.3 ounces from the North Platte River in early May.
"As soon as I saw it start separating, I yelled at everybody, trying to tell everybody to get off the ice," Jay Fountain told K2 Radio News. "At that point, it had been like, maybe three minutes and it was already way too far. Nobody could get off."
Saturday marked the 25th Annual Kids' Fishing Day at Yesness Pond in Casper, sponsored by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in cooperation with the Community Recreation Foundation.