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Don't Slap Me With This Trout

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/big.fish.ap/index.html

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ALTON, Ilinois (AP) -- Tim Pruitt went fishing and pulled up a whopper of a beast.

No, seriously: It was roughly the size of a sixth-grader.

Pruitt, casting his line in the Mississippi River on Sunday, hauled up a 58-inch long, 44-inch around blue catfish that weighed a whopping 124-pounds.

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, eight ounces.

"My adrenaline was really pumping, so it wasn't that bad," said Pruitt. "Later on, when I was lifting him out of the livewell and into another tank I really felt the weight."

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.

Once that's done, the catch should be approved as the world's largest blue catfish, replacing the current champion that was caught January 16, 2004, in Lake Texoma, Texas, said Becky Reynolds, a spokeswoman for the association.

Saw it on the local news (Alton is just north and east of St. Louis). That is one helluva fish.

It was on ESPN's top plays.

At least now my brother-in-law can stop bitching about how the world record catfish was caught where he always fishes yet it wasn't him who caught it...

Now he will just bitch about how the previous world record holder was caught at the lake he fishes and not by him...

Flere, confusing a catfish and a trout is seriously reducing your prestige on this board

That thing was more fish then my ex-gir.. eh, won't even bother.

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Originally Posted by gstelmack

Flere, confusing a catfish and a trout is seriously reducing your prestige on this board

I had prestige? ;)

Meh, who cares. It's not like it was a giant lobster or anything...