I am back from my break and while I haven’t been “not working” I just have not been working on Learn To Catch Catfish and Catfishing Radio for the past few weeks during the holidays but it has been a very busy time for me at North Texas Catfish Guide Service. First order of business [...]
Photos Courtesy The Mecklenburg News-Progress New World Record Blue Catfish, A Whopping 143 Lbs The catfishing world has been abuzz since early this morning about a possible new world record blue catfish that was caught Saturday night June 18th 2011 at John H. Kerr-Buggs Island Lake near Clarksville Virginia. I was sitting around resting and eating [...]
With just a little over two weeks having passed since Greg Bernal caught the (pending) 130 Lb world record blue catfish in Missouri another angler from Missouri has caught yet another impressive blue catfish from the Mississippi River. Rick Hastings of Cape Girardeau Missouri landed this monster 115 Lb Blue Catfish. Hastings hooked the fish [...]
The world record blue catfish coverage has continued in mainstream media. The other day I wrote about the 130 lb world record catfish that was caught, breaking the previous 124 lb record. While the catfish still needs to be certified as an official record by the IGFA (International Game Fish Association) it appears that the [...]
130 Lb Record catfish may be certified as the “biggest catfish ever caught”. Greg Bernal of Florissant, Missouri has landed what is now a new Missouri state record blue catfish and what could potentially be certified as the new world record catfish, breaking Tim Pruitt’s previous record of the biggest catfish ever caught weighing in [...]
World Record Catfish Are Always A Hot Topic I get dozens of emails a month with people asking about world record catfish. Many of them are forwarded emails of this photograph and people asking if I have seen photos of this world record catfish. The answer is yes and about 10,000 times so please refrain [...]
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources announced on February 19 2009 that angler Earnest Timpson of Edison Ga., set a new Georgia state record for blue catfish on February 2nd. Timpson was fishing on Lake Walter F George in Georgia when he pulled in a blue catfish weighing 80 lbs and 4 ounces, beating the old Georgia [...]
On January 16th, 2004 Cody Mullenix of Howe Texas caught the fish which become known as “Splash” while fishing at the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge on Lake Texoma. The blue catfish caught by Mullenix weighed in at 121.5 Lbs, which was not only a Texas state record but also become a world record. The fish [...]
