Would be easy for me to claim I caught a 200 lb’er and had it weighed at a bait shop then released. I got to looking at him and I said 'That's a bullhead alright,'" he told the Kansas City infoZine News.It’s remarkable that Irvin recognized the fish so easily when fisheries experts would likely have had difficulty, seeing that they generally list the top-end weight of yellow bullhead at 2 or 3 pounds. See more photos, including world-record catfish, in the gallery below: Blue Catfish World Record. Best catfishing I’ve ever seen.This site needs to be updated Buggs Island as Virginian’s call it or Kerr Lake if in NC now holds the top two all time record blues. World Record Bullhead: Missouri angler’s catch should obliterate current mark. Blue Catfish . The species is often stocked in farm ponds since it is so good to eat. It is smaller than the black bullhead, although the all-tackle world record being is a 7-pound 6-ounce fish that was taken on August 1, 2009 in New York State. All-Tackle Record: 64.86 kilograms (143 pounds, 0 ounces), Kerr Lake, Va., USA. Field & Stream may receive financial compensation for products purchased through this site. As for the memories, you will always have them.I think it is sad that those fish died. We quickly weighed her at bobcats bait and tackle and released her to fight another day. It was rushed through the system and approved as a world record but few people who live around here are buying the “official” version.I went on a trip with that guy Cody a few years ago on tawokoni in December. The top four trophy blue catfish caught in the past ten years across the United States.
I think it would be nice to have my name in record book but I cant ever see myself risking a single catfish for that. What’s more, if southern California’s Dixon Lake is the home of world-record bass, Old Drexel is definitely the place for record bullhead. Yet on certified scales, Irvin’s fish went a whopping 6 pounds, 6 ounces. Pruitt claimed to grab the fish by the lower jaw and wrestle it into the boat when it surfaced.“My adrenaline was really pumping, so it wasn’t that bad,” said Pruitt, who lives Fosterburg Illinois. Yellow Bullhead Could Blow Existing World Record Out Of The Water: June 9, 2006. If it wasn’t certified, it didn’t happen as far as the record is concerned.
Been fishing for big blues for 17 years now on Buggs and Santee Cooper the blues keep getting bigger and bigger on Buggs as has the fishing pressure.
The fish met all of the necessary qualifications and passed the certification process of the IGFA making it official as the new world.Virginia has been the site of considerable controversy in the catfishing world over the past few years. Paulie’s flathead catfish weighed 123 pounds (55.79 kilograms) and was over 5 feet (1.55 meters) in length. Get more exclusive Those all are very impressive but I’m still amazed with the world record flathead catfish caught on 12lb testThere were and are a lot of question marks about how that Elk City Lake flathead was caught. "My cork went down and I set the hook and pulled that thing up through the moss and I said, 'That has to be a bullhead.' It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) and yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis).It was originally described as Pimelodus nebulosus by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1819, and is also referred to as Ictalurus nebulosus. John Irvin of Drexel caught this 6-pound, 6-ounce yellow bullhead catfish at Old Drexel Lake in Bates County May 27. It Earlier in 2011 a new Virginia record blue catfish that was caught at Buggs Island Lake that Anderson’s monster blue catfish was taken to Mecklenburg Farm Supply in Chase City Virginia because it was the only place within the area that had scales large enough to perform the official weigh in.A fish (of any species) does not become a world record until the record is certified by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). We fought it for probably a good half hour to an hour and we were actually going down toward Scott City about a mile from where we’re fishing at.” said Hastings.Fishing on the Mississippi River near Alton, Illionois Tim Pruitt landed the massive 124-pound cat after a battle lasting nearly 40 minutes a 58 inch long, 44 inch girth blue surfaced. Irvin has caught three more 6-pounders there since.Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. I could even photoshop an image of me with a big cat as “proof”. of Conservation photo) Drexel, Mo. - Pity the lowly bullhead. Source: IGFA World Records Database The record for the largest flathead catfish belongs to Ken Paulie, who landed his big flathead over 20 years ago. Brown bullheads are native to the eastern U. S. on both sides of the Appalachians and to southern Canada, but have been introduced in many other places.
Our fortune continued as we landed an 81lber the next day which was also cpr’d.