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

    05/24/2005 5:00:04 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 67 replies · 4,478+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/24/05 | AP
    ALTON, Ill. - 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...