Just found this on Drudge. Cool story, but the comments below are ridiculous. Are the people making comments illiterate? It says in the article the fish was released, but I guess that's not good enough - it was caused 20 mins of distress.

Anyway, enjoy:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199848/Now-huge-fish-Schoolgirl-angler-nets-record-catch-twice-size-thats-9ft-long-weighs-14stone.html?ITO=1490

I guess that must have been one of them "sea-kittens"that I keep hearing about 8-)

Stupid people. I left a comment telling them to be a little more thorough in their reading.

I left a comment stating she caught it on a Banjo Minnow dipped in J.J. Magic Sauce.  

I left a comment stating she caught it on a Banjo Minnow dipped in J.J. Magic Sauce.

;D ;D

GOOD LUCKS TOO YOU IN CATCHING THE "BIG KAHUNA."

What the heck is a Tiddler?

11 year-old girl catches enormous catfish

Where would you hook an 11 year old girl? Behind her neck????

11 year-old girl catches enormous catfish

Where would you hook an 11 year old girl? Behind her neck????

;D

I would use some kind of harness, like those musky fishermen who supposedly used kittens as bait.

Wowza, thats a massive cat.  I thought my 16# PB channel cat was big  ;D