I Want One Too !

[Daddy Carp]

Here is some info I picked up while browsing and thought I'ld pass it along for all you ole river-rats & trot-liners like me.

IGFA recognizes new world record blue cat:..........................

DANIA BEACH, Fla. --- The International Game Fish Association (IGFA), the organization which among its many duties maintains world records for both freshwater and saltwater game fishes, has approved a 124 pound blue catfish caught in mid May by Tim Pruitt of Alton, Ill.

Pruitt and the catfish, which was caught in the Mississippi River, received a great deal of media attention throughout the nation and internationally as well.

Using cut herring for bait, Pruitt took 40 minutes to land the catfish. Efforts were made to keep it alive for a new home in a glass tank for public display but it died several days later. According to June newspaper reports, Pruitt hoped to have it mounted and put on loan to the nearby National Great Rivers Museum in East Alton, Ill.

[Trav]

I read about that over the summer in Field and Stream Magazine.

[oneshot]

Biggest I ever caught was 80 pounds up on the Missouri River by Boonville.

oneshot

[Trav]

Mine was 64 pounds from Lake Hartwell SC.

[skeeter]

National Geographic Explorer channel on cable/satellite had a nice 20 minute video about Pruitt and his wife on last night, 1-1-08. Title of the show is "Monster Fish" and I'm sure it will be repeated, watch your program guides or listings.

His wife went to net this fish and the net broke, he had to haul it in by hand over the gunwale of his boat. He's sure there are other, larger fish to be had. Bear in mind this took place just above the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers and that same area yielded a Bull Shark at one time.