Man Catches 5-Foot, 124 Pound Catfish (PIC)

ALTON, Ill. -- 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 long, 44-inch around blue catfish that weighed a whopping 124-pounds.

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

"My adrenaline was really pumping, so it wasn't that bad," said Pruitt. "Later on, when I was lifting him out of the livewell and into another tank I really felt the weight."

Now, Pruitt, whose fish has already been weighed in the presence of a conservation police officer and measured by a biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, is expected to submit documentation to the International Game Fish Association so that it can be certified a world record holder.

Once that's done, the catch should be approved as the world's largest blue catfish, replacing the current champion that was caught Jan. 16, 2004, in Lake Texoma, Texas, said Becky Reynolds, a spokeswoman for the association.

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I'll bet not, probably to tough to eat.

you're right.

Must be old as the hills and probably tastes like old tires.

before butchering. They are too fat.

Our news said this morning that he would be on display at the Cabella's store in KC.

I've seen embryo sized hail, but nothin as big as a sixth grader :D

that came back up after diving to work on a lock that he wouldn't go back down again because there was a fish down there big enough to eat a man.
I don't know the truth to the statement but have seen pictures a museum in Nebraska or Kansas of a 6 foot long cat fish caught in the early 1900's from the mighty mo.

There are plenty of 5" 124 pound adult women.

that were that height and weight when I was in 6th grade. Any of the 6th graders that were about 5 feet tall tended to weigh more like 100 pounds.