Is it as big as reported?

[DTro]

I'm sure some of you have seen the pic in todays Strib. 50" and 36" girth estimated at 75lbs. Isn't that a state record? It's a huge fish, but doesn't look like 75. Whadya think?

[Dennis Steele]

The reporter was obviously a fisherman!

My guess is around 60.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Yeah, 50 inches and 75 pounds? I doubt it. Definitely a nice fish, but no 75 pounder.

[hanson]

Never being around a flathead that big, I couldn't say.

It doesn't look nearly as big as that 55lb you caught dtro.

My guess is the camera added some pounds.

[DTro]

yeah, the camera does the same to me

Or it could be that DQ blizzard every night

[fiskyknut]

That is a HUGE Mudcat. Look at the curled tail, and with a girth that round who's to say it's not as heavy as reported. Easily the biggest Flathead I've seen posted on this site anyhow. WOW!

A friend of mine caught a 67 inch Sturgeon with the same girth and it went 117 pounds, Sturgeon have that long thin tail too, if the measurements are correct on that beast of a catfish I'd think it could weigh out at 75 no problem.

Let me be the first to congratulate this angler on a great catch rather than make 'light' of his catch.....CONGRATULATIONS!

An impressed and also envious fiskyknut.

[Willy]

If you could make that picture a little bigger, it would be easier to see and make a judgment on. Sure looks like a hog whatever it weighed out at. Where was it caught?

[hanson]

Mississippi River Pool 7

(I believe)