The first fishing memories Nick Anderson has are from Kerr Reservoir, the nearly 50,000-acre impoundment on the Virginia-North Carolina border. On Saturday evening, he made his most indelible fishing memory there.
The 29-year-old Greenville, N.C., resident, fishing with his father, Rick Anderson, and his stepbrother,Jeramie Mullis, hauled a 143-pound blue catfish from the reservoir, also known as Buggs Island Lake. Pending certification _ and Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologists say everything about the entry seems legitimate _ the fish will shatter both state and world records for the species.
Anderson's catch was 57 inches long, with a girth of 43.5 inches. It would be Virginia's only all-tackle freshwater world record.
In March on Buggs Island Lake, Tony Milam set the current Virginia record with a 109-pound blue cat. Greg Bernal, of Flourisant, Mo., netted the world record, a 130-pound behemoth, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers less than a year ago.
Anyone else think of the Gumpy Old Men movies when they see this picture? lol
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ReplyDeleteI lived 1500 miles south of the Mexican border for 6 months winter '82/83 and saw one of them monsters laying on the edge of a near by river. The Mexicans wouldn't even eat'um.