Texoma Catfish

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Texas angler gets record case of the blues

Lake Texoma produces an apparent world-record blue whiskerfish

By Lynn Burkhead
ESPNOutdoors.com associate editor — Jan. 20, 2004


Game warden Dale Moses, left, and Cody Mullennix show off a potential world-record 121½-pound blue catfish pulled from Lake Texoma on Friday.

DENISON, Texas — Don't skinny-dip in Texoma!

That's the advice myself and several others received Saturday morning via e-mail from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden Dale Moses.

The reason for Moses' humorous warning about Lake Texoma?

Try a 121-pound, 8-ounce blue catfish being pulled from the chilly waters of the 89,000-acre reservoir that straddles the Oklahoma-Texas border!

Texas angler Cody Mullennix accomplished that feat Friday, Jan. 16, when the 27-year old catfisherman beached a 60-inch blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) while he fished from the bank on the Texas side of the reservoir, located about an hour's drive north of Dallas.

Mullennix's 20-minute battle with the whiskered leviathan produced not only an apparent overall Texas state record for the species, but also a possible International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record.

With Lake Texoma already claiming the Texas rod-and-reel record, the Texas unrestricted standard, and the IGFA's 80-pound line-class benchmark, Mullennix needed little incentive to go fishing Friday.

Not too long into the mild, damp day, the lone angler landed what would prove to be, at the time, a personal-best 56-pound blue catfish.

“ You know you've got something that is large. You're reeling in these things and it's like you lose all blood going to your arms and they go numb. ”
— Cody Mullennix

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[edvedr]

Tweetdamn thats a big fish

[jipped genes]

Tweeti read it in the denton chronicle and didnt beleive it at first. that is one bid fish it weighs as much as the guy who caught it.