Man Hooks World Record Catfish

The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 24, 2005; 10:56 PM

ALTON, Ill. -- 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.

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My Gawd!! 124 pounds? That is a monster!
See, they really DO grow that big....
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