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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vollmer" data-source="post: 1016" data-attributes="member: 8014"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><a href="http://www.gameandfishmag.com/files/2015/04/blue_catfish_2015_edde_1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://nodakangler.com/forums/images/not_found/2015/04/blue_catfish_2015_edde_1-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'">Photo courtesy of Missouri Department of Conservation.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">When it comes to big catfish, Missouri is no underdog. Missouri offers amazing opportunities to catch whopper channel, flathead, and blue cats. As one angler found out last month, they grow to record potential.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Jefferson City, Mo., resident Burr Edde III, landed an enourmous 120-pound, 8-ounce blue catfish on March 21 while using a trotline off a stretch of the Missouri River. The fish measured 55 1/8 inches and a girth of 45 inches. The record was confirmed by the <span style="color: #c9242c">Missouri Department of Conservation</span> (MDC) on March 25 at the Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, Mo., using a certified scale at the store.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The monster fish was pulled off the trotline baited with Asian carp cut-bait. The giant cat surpassed Missouri’s previous alternative-method blue catfish state record of 117 pounds caught along the Osage River in 1964.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">“Oh my goodness! That’s a big fish,” Edde told the MDC when recalling his first sighting of the giant. “How am I going to get this one into the boat?! It was definitely an experience of a lifetime to catch one that big. I was blessed. And there are still lots of them out there!”</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The avid angler would have liked to release the giant back to its home, or even donate it to Bass Pro Shops tanks for the public to enjoy, but the fish didn’t make it long enough.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">“It’s too big to actually have mounted, but I’m getting a replica made,” Edde said.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"><span style="font-size: 10px">While most blue catfish in Missouri average between 3 to 40 pounds, it is not uncommon for them to grow up to 80 and 100 pounds. The blue catfish typically inhabits Missouri’s large reservoirs, big rivers and lower reaches of major streams. They prefer to lay in swift chutes and under pools with a noticeable current. The blue catfish makes for a great sport fish, as well as delectable table food.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'"></span></span><span style="color: #7E7E7E"><span style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'">by <span style="color: #373737">Chris Schneider</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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