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| Flathead Catfish Weight: 78 lbs.-0 oz. Length: 52 inches Girth: 39 inches Angler: Brian Newberger Caught at: Cape Fear River above Lock & Dam #3 Bait/Lure: Live eel Method: Record Date: Sept. 17, 2005 |
| Channel Catfish Weight: 23 lbs. - 4 oz.. Length: Girth: Angler: E.J. Bowden of Rocky Mt. Caught at: Rocky Mt. City Lake Bait/Lure: cricket Method: Record Date: 1970 |
| WhiteCatfish Weight: 13 lbs. Angler: Jerry Wayne Bentley Caught at: Lake James Bait/Lure: Night crawler Method: Record Date: May 21, 1990 |
| Brown Bulhead Catfish Weight: 3 lbs. - 12 oz. Angler: Gregory Dale Hughes Caught at: Buck Hall Creek - Duplin Co. Bait/Lure: Night crawler Method: Record Date: April 26, 1997 |
| Santee Cooper Cats - Catfish USA presents The State of North Carolina Catfish Records Department |
| Previous North Carolina Catfish Record Holders |
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| Blue Catfish Weight: 89 lbs.-0 oz. Length: 54 1/2 inches Girth: 36 1/2 inches (Head measured 30 1/8 inches) Angler: Eric Fincher Caught at: Badin Lake Bait/Lure: Live shiners Method: fishing for striped bass Record Date: Nov. 25, 2006 around 1:30 PM |
| Previous Catfish Records are listed at the bottom of the page. |
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| UPDATE March 27, 2009 David Haynes, gained notoriety for catching a 21- pound channel catfish with a Barbie Doll fishing outfit in August 2008, [setting the new North Carolina state record]. But Haynes has had to relinquish his state-record cat to an angler who caught a bigger channel catfish back in 1970. After reading media coverage about the channel catfish state record, E.J. Bowden of Rocky Mount . . . informed the NCWRC he had caught a bigger channel catfish weighing 23 pounds, 4 ounces from City Lake in Rocky Mount in 1970, and he had the paperwork and photo to prove it . . . . [Now,] the [state Wildlife and Resources] Commission [has] accepted Bowden’s channel cat as the official state record. |