Talk about a fish tale: A Mississippi man reeled in a massive blue catfish that set a state record.
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks said Eugene Cronley of Brandon caught the 131-pound fish April 7 in the Mississippi River near Natchez.
“I’ve been catfishing all my life and I never dreamed of something like this," Cronley told the Clarion Ledger.The department said Cronley's fish broke the previous rod-and-reel record of a 95-pound fish caught in 2009. It's also larger than the 101-pound blue catfish caught by a team of two people in 1997. Both of those fish were also caught in the Mississippi River near Natchez.
The world-record catch for blue catfish was broken in 2011 when a 143-pound behemoth was reeled in from a Virginia lake, according to the International Game Fish Association.“He is a monster,” Cronley said.
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