One Tuesday afternoon in July a Missouri fisherman named Greg Bernal was out fishing with his friend Janet Momphard when he must have felt an almighty tug on the end of his line! Little did he know what he was about to reel in…
He more than likely wasn’t fishing for Carp but he certainly wouldn’t have been bothered as the bait he was using was the rather annoying Asian Carp that are taking over the US’s lakes so not only was he lending a helping hand he was setting a new record, and potentially a new world record.
Bernal had just wound in an almighty catfish weighing in at a whopping 130lbs! He has broken one record with this catch; that being the record he set 20 years earlier with a 103lbs catfish that he caught in the Mississippi river.
It took both Bernal and his pal Janet around half-an-hour to get the fish in the boat and it was at this point – they realised they had hooked into something rather special.
“We both grabbed hold of the net, and then that took us another half-hour to get him in the boat because he was so heavy,” Bernal said.
He won’t be forgetting this one for a while and like in football when they say “you’re just as good as your last game”, in fishing they say “you’re just as good as your last catch.” Says it all really doesn’t it?
