..while we are attending SCR8 in Collinsville Il. Sept.2-3?
ALTON, Ill. (AP) -- The 124-pound catfish a man from the St. Louis area town of Godfrey, Illinois, caught in the Mississippi River is getting a new home in Kansas City, Kansas.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says the 58-inch-long fish is the largest catfish ever caught in Illinois and the largest blue catfish every caught in the world. The largest blue catfish caught previously weighed in at 121 pounds, eight ounces.
It took more than a half-hour for Tim Pruitt to drag the mammoth fish into his boat after he hooked in late Saturday below the Melvin Price Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River at Alton.
The Natural Resources Department says the fish has been kept alive and will be on display in a tank at the Cabela's Outfitter store in Kansas City.
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