Personal best catfish:

[JoeLongo]

4 hands on the net to pick up a 20lbs cat?

Time to hit the gym fellas.

[Wilson]

Originally Posted by JoeLongo

4 hands on the net to pick up a 20lbs cat?

Time to hit the gym fellas.

It was the net that was weak. You can see it behind Andy in the Crappie picture. Only about three quarters of the fish fit in the net.

[Duffman]

Damn! Helluva nice cat.

You guys release cause ya have to or personal choice?

That effer would be in my deep fryer right NOW.

....and nice pix....the 1/4 pixel thing is......never mind...

[Wilson]

Originally Posted by Duffman

Damn! Helluva nice cat.

You guys release cause ya have to or personal choice?

That effer would be in my deep fryer right NOW.

....and nice pix....the 1/4 pixel thing is......never mind...

Andy keeps a few Trout for the smoker now and then but I always release FW fish. Andy could of taken the fish if he wanted to.
There were no Trout to be had today...kinda unusual for that lake.
You must have a DEEP deep fryer

[Lard Almighty]

Awesome kitty!

A weight formula for channel cats courtesy of Wikipedia: W = (L/L1)^b (Invariably, b is close to 3.0 for all species, L1 is the length of a typical fish weighing 1 kg. For channel catfish, b = 3.2293, somewhat higher than for many common species, and L1 = 45.23 cm)

Based on this formula, your fish weighed in at a hair under 6 kg, or approximately 13.21 pounds.

[AndyS]

Thanx guys !! I changed it up top, sure not 20lbs !!. The wifes' brown trout was 31" and 18lbs and I stuffed that into a stream trout net, barely. When we went to lift the catfish into the boat it felt like the aluminum handle was going to break, so the two uf us grabbed the rim and lifted it into the boat.

[Mike M]

Congrats Andy Two personal bests in one week of vacation. Way to go.

[njfisherman1975]

That's one fat cat! Helluva fish!