I caught it Sunday on spinning rod with 8# line. Weighed 44.600 pounds on the marina scales. Took 1 hr and 42 min. to land.

Shakey head - 3/32-oz. jighead and 5" worm off a point in a cove. Had the little worm sucked all the way down to the back of his throat. Got the bait out with the help of security who held it's mouth open while I inserted my hand with a pair of long nose pliers and popped it out. Took me into sunken brushpiles 6 times during the fight, as well as tied up in 1 anchor rope that a pontoon boat had out in the middle of the cove. Had to take the line under the rope, all the way under the entire length of the pontoon boat, plus under their engine and the feet of the 6 people swimming around the boat - somehow it all worked!

Nice!! I do miss catfishing. I really don't get into them no more since by boat went down few years ago.

Wow!!!

That is an epic story to go along with that picture.  Awesome catch!!!

That's epic man. I once caught a 25 pound flathead while bass fishing with 12 pound test on a Quantum baitcast rod & reel. Only took about 20 minutes to boat it.

Excellant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats great. i hooked up with a flathead like that on 8lb test using a night crawler and zebco 33. didnt take long to get him to the dock or top of water because he mostly swam right at me, got it to the top of the water to see and it started rolling and snapped my line, ive been dying to hook up with another monster catfish like that since