Title should be: "Teen catches giant catfish minutes after doubting her luck, father says."
Perhaps the moderator can fix.
Wow
Those things get huge wiers catfish I think from some I’ve seen on the YouTube this ones sort of common..
Story would be a little better if the bait she used was included...
That ain’t no catfish. It’s a French submarine.
This particular species of catfish is from continental Europe and is not native to Britain, where it has no predators. It doesn’t seem to be closely related to American catfish.
So young to be a stink-bait expert.
This girl definitely puts me to shame.
“I think she’s had about 23 in the last four years over 40 pounds”
This sentence threw me off.
Somehow, I thought the article began by saying this 15 y/o girl was just getting started with fishing.
Sure ‘nuff. It sneaks up on you. Once I was fishing Accotink Creek, just south of Annandale, Va. Just junk fishing. A little hoot owl followed me down the trail in the trees, a half mile or so, curious. Even played peek-a-boo with me between bluegills. Then *wham*, a 24” channel cat in barely shin-deep water snatched my worm and gave me a helluva tussle. A few years later, I was fishing a private lake during the spring spawn at my wife’s cousin’s farm. Nailed about a half dozen smallies, some blues. Then my pole got doubled over by a 15” black crappie that didn’t take well too a soft bait trolling over his nest. I though he was another smallie on steroids. (Note: red is a go-to color in the south in springtime. Chicken livers lanced on a large gauge hook will produce buckets of catfish.)
Fried up with a few drops of Tobasco sauce. Yummy!🙂🙂
Not into landing living fossil-type fish.