A fisherman in Loudon County may have caught a new state and world record-breaking black crappie, pending confirmation. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says Lionel Ferguson, from Philadelphia, Tennessee, caught the fish in a private pond. The fish weighs 5 pounds, 7.68 ounces. The state record is 4 pounds, 4 ounces caught in 1985. The current world-record black crappie was caught in a private lake in Missouri in 2006, weighing an even five pounds. A TWRA biologist visually inspected the fish Ferguson caught and confirmed it was a black crappie, but sent off a fin clipping for DNA testing, on a small chance it might be a hybrid. If it is a hybrid, then it will not break the record. The location of the pond in which Ferguson caught the fish was not revealed, to maintain the privacy of the land owner.