Thirteen-year-old Nathan Peña-Alfaro set two new Texas fishing records over the New Year’s Day weekend with one big bass he caught from O.H. Ivie Lake in Texas.

The 13.59-pound largemouth he landed was the heaviest ever recorded at O.H. Ivie and it also set a new junior angler state record for a largemouth caught from public waters in the state. Peña-Alfaro’s catch was not the largest ever landed by a junior angler in Texas. In 1993, Chris Leslie, 13, of Emory caught a 14.27-pound bass from Lake Fork, but at that time separate records were not kept for junior anglers. In 2007 Jesse Roberson, age 9, of Goldthwaite caught the current junior angler record for private waters, a 15.54-pounder from Lake Merritt.

Peña-Alfaro, a student at Western Hills High School in Benbrook, attributes his catch to the fact that he did his research before going fishing.

“We heard they were catching big fish from O.H. Ivie on live sunfish,” he said.