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California woman breaks Perry’s 71-year-old largemouth record. … Or does she?

Like the proverbial tree falling in the woods, here’s a question: If an angler catches a world-record bass and nobody’s around to see it, does it count?

That’s the issue facing officials at the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) and National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame this winter. On Aug. 24, a woman named Leaha Trew of Santa Rosa, Calif., reportedly caught a largemouth bass weighing 22 pounds, 8 ounces out of Spring Lake, Calif.

Striped Bass World Record

The IGFA all-tackle world record striped bass weighed 78 lbs 8 ounces.
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World record catfish as big as a grizzly

Fishermen in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record -- a 646-pound (293-kg) giant the size of a grizzly bear -- and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society said on Wednesday.
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Crappie Overview

Learn about the Crappie, it's habitat, and habits.
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A new bait for catfish

A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth!
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Runnin' with the grunion

To ichthyologists, they're a mystery. To the rest of us, they're the best show on the beach.
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How many species of fish are there?


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How to catch catfish?

QUESTION: I have been fishing for flathead and channel cat but had no luck at all, any suggestions on what kind of bait to use and where to fish it?
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Newsflash

A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth!