Big catfish

[SunTzu]

This monster weighed in at 124 lbs. 58" long 44" around

[Rocky]

ive seen bigger. there is a website im looking for its called like the meerville catfish page or something like that.

[timmy_v]

Thats a big ol fish. Wish i could catch something like that. My catches are usually like 11 inches.

[imported_trio]

did you catch that?

[Rocky]

http://momentoffame.com/photopost/da...ge_catfish.jpg

[Rocky]

same size as the one you posted. i wish i could find that page! it had all of the biggest ever photographed. its an awesome page

[SunTzu]

No , not me . Here is the story...

Man Hooks World Record 124-Pound Catfish
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:43 PM EDT
The Associated Press


It sounds like the sort of tale Mark Twain might have cooked up: A man fishing in the Mississippi River hauls in a blue catfish roughly the size of a sixth-grader. But this is no fish story. Early Sunday, Tim Pruitt caught a 124-pound blue catfish.

To get a sense of just how big that is, the state record holder was a mere 85 pounds and the world record holder tipped the scales at 121 pounds, 8 ounces.

Now, Pruitt, whose fish has already been weighed in the presence of a conservation police officer and measured by a biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, is expected to submit documentation to the International Game Fish Association so that it can be certified a world record holder.

Once that is done, the catch should be approved as the world's largest blue catfish, replacing the current champion that was caught Jan. 16, 2004, in Lake Texoma, Texas, said Becky Reynolds, a spokeswoman for the association.

Pruitt's fish, measuring 58 inches long and 44 inches around, was swimming below the Melvin Price Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River at Alton on Saturday night when it grabbed Pruitt's line. The two struggled for more than half an hour, and at one point the fish dragged the boat carrying Pruitt, his wife and a friend before Pruitt could reel it in.

The fish has been kept alive and will be on display in a tank at the Cabela's Outfitter store in Kansas City, Kan., according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Pruitt, 33, of Godfrey, told the (Peoria) Journal Star's outdoors columnist that he considered releasing the fish in the river but decided to donate it to Cabela's "because I thought it might be neat to give people a chance to see a fish that massive."

[LB4]

How did he catch that.
If he was fishing for normal fish it would have easily snapped his line
I dont think he was planning on catching a 124 pound fish

[Rocky]

haha this may sound crazy, you can go diving and put your arm in a hollow log and they will latch onto it, you wrestle up to the surface.......... [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] this is no joke whatsoever.

[SunTzu]

Your exactly right Rocky. It's called noodling.

noodling