Giant Catfish   One day in February while Walleye fishing I got a snag in about 20 feet of water in front of a shallow point that went out about 40 feet from the bank. There was a lot of brush I could see on the depth finder. I had to break off and tie on another jig. I managed to stay on the same spot with using the electric trolling motor. As soon as I dropped it down I had a hid and set the hook only to be snagged again. Since the knot was fresh I had a hard time getting the 6# test line to break. I pulled hard and got it to come up a little, but then it would just go right back down to the bottom. While messing around trying to break the line I felt something odd that didn't feel like a branch, it felt like a head shake!

The fight was on, out to deep water in the middle of the river it went and I followed. I fought that fish a long time, and every time it would get close it would race back to the bottom. It had me running all over the river in that vicinity. Finally I got it close enough to get a look at it and it was the biggest Catfish I had ever seen. Of course it looked bigger in the water, but still, it was a giant, especially with 6# test line. We finally got it to come up close enough to net. We didn't have a scale big enough for such a fish so I kept it to take home and get it weighed. It weighed 36 pounds. Unfortunately it died before I could release it.