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If you can brave the cold, the winter months are some of the best times of year to deck trophy blue catfish. The biggest catfish I’ve ever seen in person weighed 52 pounds. I didn’t get to reel it in, ...

The biggest catfish I’ve ever seen in person weighed 52 pounds. I didn’t get to reel it in, sadly, but was awestruck nonetheless by this blue cat. A friend and I were fishing with a charter captain on ...