Now this is a fish

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/big_fish&printer=1


Man Hooks World Record 124-Pound Catfish

Wed May 25, 9:02 AM ET

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.

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, 8 ounces.

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.
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Huge and ugly. If I saw something like that on the end of my line I'd probably turn tail and run like hell.

It's a sea monster!

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Big fish now dead big fish.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/outdoors/cst-nws-fish26.html
The world's largest blue catfish died Tuesday on its way to a store in Kansas City. But it won't become the world's biggest catfish dinner.

Around midnight Saturday, Tim Pruitt landed his 124-pound blue on the Mississippi River at Alton. It surpassed the standing world record by 2-1/2 pounds.

After much thought, Pruitt allowed Cabela's Outfitter store to display the fish if it would be returned and released in the Mississippi.

"The fish was in good shape when it left here," said Rob Maher, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources biologist who certified the fish as a blue Sunday and was there when it was picked up Monday.

The cause of the fish's death was undetermined but presumably was related to stress.
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