ShareNews of a probable state and world record catfish being pulled from the Missouri River near Columbia Bottom Conservation Area spread quickly Tuesday and prompted local media outlets converge around Greg Bernal and his 130-lb. Blue Cat.
“I am still numb,” Bernal told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I’m still in shock that he’s actually that big. [...]

Share“From time to time, we came upon monstrous fish, one of which struck our Canoe with such violence, that I Thought it was a great tree, about to break our Canoe to pieces.” –Pere Jacques Marquette — Marquette’s First Voyage -1673.

According to an AP story, Dustin McEwen of Alton, IL, caught an 80 pound catfish [...]