Man Hooks World Record 124-Pound Catfish (catfish on display in Cabela's fish tank)

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[Jaysun]

We've caught fish just as big using a "telephone". Yellow cats get huge.

[Osage Orange]

What about doodle socking?

I've done it.

I think Sandy Berger's done it too.

: )

P.S. Guy caught a 2 lb 4 oz crappie around here the other day....

[judgeandjury]

Now that is just way cool!!!

Yeah, it's really groovy and far out, man!

[edpc]

Here's a link to a falsified report of the record fish. Real picture....location is inaccurate, however.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/graphics/txcatfish_small.jpg

[bwteim]

Excellent pix of wels catfish, mostly catch and release, from Ebro River, Spain, some Italian, French. See http://xvella.free.fr/photos/photo-eng.php?sub=21&menu=1&cntp=144&size=1

Examples:

[SengirV]

I thought they used to fish for catfish in the mighty miss with chains and had a team of mules to pull the catfish out. i.e. much largr than 125 pounds.

[Calpernia]

That thing is alive and he is HOLDING it????

That will take his arm off!

Why not carry a shark.

Damn!

[SENTINEL]

Alaskan yawn.

90 pound king salmon.

355 pound Alaskan halibut.

Sorry guys, couldn't resist.

[Calpernia]

Catfish can stay alive a while, a good while, without water.

[Dutchgirl]

Florida Marlin...

[TheBattman]

I think the angler may have a hard time getting certified as a record by the IGFA - depending on how it's entered. I believe that the use of nets is not allowed - as well as only one person may fight the fish and land it.

At least that's how I remember it. Now - the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame (I think that's the name) allows the use of nets to land the fish.

Should be interesting, though. That's one HUGE catfish!

[bwteim]

Zot Catfish

[concentric circles]

Closer to home, Jim Bringhurst nailed a 16-pound, five-ounce brown trout at Lower Twin Lake near Bridgeport in the Eastern Sierra. He was trolling a hand-painted, #13 Rapala.

Twin Lakes, wrong time of year but you get the idea.

[texasflower]

Just wow.

[joesnuffy]

that fish looks like it has just eaten a couple of six graders..

[Jaysun]

You didn't keep those little babies did you? Surely they have a minimum size requirement in Alaska, don't they?

[2Jedismom]

My stomach's growling just lookin' at it!

Steve doesn't understand it, being from the Great Lakes of Minnesota, but catfish is my favorite fish to eat.

Mmmm!

:-)

Put me on your catfish ping list, Norm!

[freepatriot32]

pssssssht. 124 pounds big deal now you guys shoulda seen the one that got away from me last weekend 200 pounds easy if only i could have landed it no seriously it really was :-)

[freepatriot32]

world record big head carp shot by a bowfisherman in minnesota (87 pounds )

[JAWs]

1. You should have seen the one that got away!
2. Q: What's the difference between a catfish and Dan Rather?
   A: One is a bottom feeding scum-sucker. The other is a fish.
3. The candiru is a catfish too. Pleasant nightmares!