An Alabama teenager set a Florida state record for catching the biggest flathead catfish. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says 13-year-old Charles Patchen of Gordon, Alabama, caught a nearly sixty four pound flathead. Patchen pulled in the enormous catfish from the Chattahoochee River in Jackson County. It took Patchen nearly two hours to land the big fish. The fish needed to be rolled into the boat because it was too large for the net. The previous certified state record flathead catfish weighed just over fifty five pounds and was caught on the Yellow River in 2011. The FWC certified the measurements the day after the fish was caught.
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