Missouri Record Channel Catfish

Nick Anderson caught a 143 pound blue cat with a girth of 47 inches and a length of 57 inches.

Missouri record channel catfish. Kerr-Buggs Island Lake near Clarksville Virginia. I was sitting around resting and eating my Fathers Day breakfast enjoying the day off when my email started buzzing every few minutes with breaking news of the new potential world record blue catfish. Some catfish seem to want to be caught Photo by iowadnr2.

May 20 2019 Blue catfish grow to much larger sizes than channel catfish. And they estimate the fish to be around 100 years old. The lifespan usually does not exceed 6 or 7 years but individuals may sometimes live more then 10 years.

Looks like our rod. Sep 15 2016 ARE YOU READY TO TOP THIS RECORD. Geno Adams the GFPs fisheries program administrator issued a.

Weighing in at 100 pounds its a whopper of a stor. Missouri designated the channel catfish as the official state fish in 1997. Reel state record flathead catfish will now stand at 89 pounds.

Displaying 1 - 177 of 177. The new world record blue catfish was caught Saturday night June 18th 2011 at John H. The world-record blue catfish was caught in 2011 from John Kerr Reservoir in Virginia and weighed 143 pounds.

Channel catfish mature when they are about 4 or 5 years old or are about 12 to 15 inches long. The previous world record blue was caught. Jan 05 2020 In July of 2010 Greg Bernal hooked a blue catfish that had stood as the world record up until the record-breaker we have just covered.