Blackened Catfish For Life

By Rachelle Bowden in Miscellaneous on May 25, 2005 11:33AM

Tim Pruitt caught a blue catfish in Illinois last Saturday and it was fucking huge. The biggest ever caught in Illinois. The biggest ever caught in THE WORLD. This sucker tipped the scales at 124 pounds and 58 inches long.

It took more than a half-hour for Pruitt to get the fish into his boat. The catfish was so enormous that it dragged the boat that Pruitt, his wife and their friend were in for a half mile downstream. But finally Pruitt got it in.. and we can only imagine how exhilarating and exhausting.. and how FREAKY that'd be.

The fish has been kept alive, at least for now, and is in a bigass tank at Cabela's in Kansas City. Pruitt says that later this summer they'll be returning the catfish to the Mississippi where it was caught... but all we could think of was how much of our favorite catfish dish, blackened catfish, that a 124 pound fish would make!