HOLY MOLY!!!!!
A 127 Lbs. Blue Catfish has been CAUGHT!!!!
https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/north-carolina-man-reels-record-setting-127-pound-blue-catfish/Q2KN4GLNLRB35NXSJ2WYCDCXFI/
Man, MO - you need to travel to North Carolina and wet some line with ThorHammer!!!!
WOW!!!! WHAT A MONSTER FISH!!!!
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WOW!!!!
Wayne
Time to call Jeremy Wade.
It swam off when they released it, but did it live or die ??
When I was a kid, we gutted a few catfish and noticed them still moving an hour later. So my buddy put one back in the lake and it swam away. I guess it lived on just cause it swam away LOL
We use little ones like that for bait here in Texas!
SE geography lesson: The Roanoke River starts up above Roanoke / Salem Virginia. Sound familiar? That where our boy Benni is. The river flows SE about 100 miles and merges with Dan / Stanton above Clarkesville, Va., to form Buggs Island (as it's known in Va.) / Kerr Lake (in NC). Kerr is a 39 miles long, 100 feet deep or so reservoir with 50k surface acres and 900 miles of shoreline. The WR Blue cat was caught there about ten years ago- 143 lbs. It's also where I was born and still spend weekends striper fishing. The Kerr Dam separates Kerr from Lake Gaston, traversing the border, which is where the previous NC record was caught (121) a couple years ago (maybe last year). Below Gaston is tiny Roanoke Rapids Lake; past that dam, it is straight Roanoke River all the way to the coast. Weldon, on the Roanoke, not too far from Wayne's posted catch, is a world-renowned rockfish destination in April -May for the spawning run. I keep wanting Benito to float me some troutzes downstream but maybe these cats are eating them....
Anecdotally, I call Bud Light's "Blue Cats". They are blue, and I don't want to put any in my mouth, but i would if I had to. ;D ;D ;D
Ted, most likely the fish is fine, if it didn't build up too much lactic acid in the fight. I've seen them live in a cooler for a couple days that had a lid missing and they got rained on enough to keep them going (not my $ht show, but I saw it).
That's a big kitty indeed! Virginia's rivers continue to turn out record breaking blue cats. I haven't fished the Roanoke yet...fished the James a few times...always a fantastic time. Thanks for posting Wayne! 8)