I dunno how to put Photos into the Post but click the link to see the Angler & the astounding Anglee :) pictured with the article:

Illinois man boats 124-pound, 5-foot (well, rounded off :) Blue Catfish in the Mississippi.

ALTON, Ill. (AP) — 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.

…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.

Now that is a big Catfish. I am Blue with envy. :> I may have to make Pilgrimage to Kansas City, to pay homage to the be-barbeled monster. :) / Notoriously persnickety about such matters, the IGFA will probably want to ascertain that Mister Whiskers’ weight hasn’t been unnaturally skewed, like by the ingestion of an Anchor or something, before Certifying the record. / The story should have stated what Pruitt was using for Bait. My guess: rancid chicken livers. The slimyskinned scaleless scavengers Love ‘em. The rottener the better. (In this case, maybe a whole damn decayed Chicken. :)

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