Just thought you might enjoy, second largest one I have ever seen.

http://lfmfr.com/2009/04/21/85lb-lake-fork-flathead-video-4-21-09-caught-by-guide-kenneth-jones/

WoW

Nice fish but why on earth do people feel the need to keep something like that?

Throw it back to fight another day.

Good lookin fish, caught on rod and reel or some other method? What bait?

Dang!

that's a helluva fish. I hope to catch one like that someday

Umm, to eat! And before someone spouts off with the old wives tail that the big ones taste worse than the small ones, I , and most every other real flathead fisherman know better. I rather catch, clean and cook the meat from one 50 pound flathead than 5- 10 pound flatheads.

What a fish. It's interesting with flatties though, looking at this fish. A small percentage of the weight of that fish is actually meat. A massive head and belly(probably has a 5 pound bass in there...lol) seems to be the majority of the fish.

They end up being around 33-40% clean meat.

I used to do a little Taxidermy a few years back, and a guy brought me a huge head from 65# flathead he caught for me to mount, and you would be surprised at how much meat is in a catfish head that size.

Trotline, Jug, Rod??????????????????????????????????????????????

wow that is amazing!

i agree, i would have taken pics and weighed that one and turned him back. Plenty of other eaters out there to catch. I wonder if we will ever see a slot limit on catfish like we have on salt water species?

jw

Amazing. Ill be out on Fork in the morning throwing jugs. Will be the first time Ive used jugs this year. Would be awesome to catch one half that size.

Dang Cam.. they treated you pretty bad ...putting that rope thru your lip then hanging you in that tree.....