Pepperoni wrote:

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ALTON, Illinois (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 (146 cm) long, 44-inch (111 cm) around blue catfish that weighed a
whopping 124-pounds (56 kg).

To get a sense of just how big that is, the state record holder was a mere
85 pounds (38 kg) and the world record holder tipped the scales at 121
pounds, eight ounces (55 kg).



A long dead neighbor had a picture of her husband with a catfish
suspended from a hoist over their well. It weighed 176lbs the next day
after being caught. It was caught on a hand line in a local creek. He
caught it about 1922. There are/were many enormous cats out there. They
just never get recorded.