New Channel Catfish World Record....

[Stumpknocker2]

Well I am sitting here looking at the local paper and a 76 year old man has broke the world record channel cat. The state record was 44.5# and the world record was 58#, his channel wieght in at 63#. He was caught on a bush hook and cut bait. He was caught on the Chatawhatchee river, just miles up the road from me. What a trip, and I thought there were no big cats in there. LOL.

[RiverKing]

Well I am sitting here looking at the local paper and a 76 year old man has broke the world record channel cat. The state record was 44.5# and the world record was 58#, his channel wieght in at 63#. He was caught on a bush hook and cut bait. He was caught on the Chatawhatchee river, just miles up the road from me. What a trip, and I thought there were no big cats in there. LOL.

Thats a big old channel....That recoed has stood for a long time...Thanks for sharing

[SkiMax]

MAN THAT'S A MONSTER! My goal has been to catch a 60+ pound blue, but now i want a 60+ pound channel! our state record is only 33 so it might take a while. :big_smile:

Got any pics of that beast?

[Scott Daw]

any pics or a link? Id love to see that big ole cat!

[Stumpknocker2]

Here is the article from todays paper...

[catfisher43]

Man 63 # channel.Didnt realize they could get that big.Thanks for sharing.

[Scott Daw]

man now that must have been a fight. then again I only use a medium action and a med-heavy action spinning rod when im out on cat patrol.

[chrisblue]

I dont mean to be a party pooper but I'm pretty sure it turned out to be a blue cat.They say it took a long time for the biologists to find out but they confirmed it to be a blue.This is not solid evidence but there was alot of talk on another forum about this and thats what was said.

[Stumpknocker2]

Well the article said that the wildlife commission said it was a channel, I guess the best thing to do is look on the net at the records.

[CatBusster]

shame it had to die

another 5 years and who knows it could have been a 70!!!!!!

[matt22va]

I'm pretty to sure to be a world record the fish has to be caught on rod and reel.
Matt

[chrisblue]

I'm pretty to sure to be a world record the fish has to be caught on rod and reel.
Matt

Thats correct, but if it is a channel its still a trophy none the less.

[matt22va]

chris,
if that was a wells catfish it would still be a trophy for me, I'm still struggling with the 40lb mark targeting blues and flatheads. Santee cooper didn't get it for me in the 3 years I was there so now I'm hoping to hit it on the Altamaha.
matt

[boilerman]

thanks for sharing

[KajunPCB]

any update to this? can anyone confirm that the wildlife officials said it was a blue?

[shelbygt1979]

Thanks for sharing I was wondering if any other state could hold the record as SC has held it far to long.

[Beaufort]

So did any body ever find any confirmation that it was a channel. i .

[Ghoulscout 13]

no mater what it was that is one nice fish

[villaitefla]

I read that it was a Blue catfish.
Also according to the article in The Herald, it was caught on a "bush hook", so that would have negated it being a world record anyway.
I'll check if my friends at the FWC here in Orlando know anything about it.

[IrishO'Brady]

A bush hook can still get a world record, its just not an IGFA type record. World record sized fish, not "world record caught on rod and reel" or "caught by alternative mothods... i.e, noodling, bowfishing" I beleive.

[jsharris]

I feel pretty retarded for asking this but what is a bush hook? is that a limb line?

[Katmaster Jr.]

I feel pretty retarded for asking this but what is a bush hook? is that a limb line?

Yeah, I think it's about the same as a limbline. Too bad that fish had to be wasted on one of those.

[TIM HAGAN]

yes a bush hook,limb line or as the rednesk up here call them bush-bobs all are the same. A line tie off to a bush or limb of a tree with a hook at the other end.

[Cuda-Cada]

I just learned of this fish last week. I too was excited about a huge channel cat being caught right here in FL. But alas, it was not too be. I called around and talked to Dan Dobbins who is a good contact for flatheads also and he said it was a blue cat. Dan works for the state wildlife commission as a biologists. There has been some big channels caught from that river though and a 46 pounder was shocked up by a sampling boat owned by the state. Problem is though that flatheads are now in the system and the best days of huge channels for that river are coming to a close.

[tnkatman]

I agree it's a shame it wasn't C.P.R ed. But if it's a channel then it's a big one.

[jhedg]

that is one big mama jama, what type of cut bait