New Mexico Teen Releases Potential Record Blue Catfish
The 13-year-old angler landed an estimated 55-pound blue catfish, but let it go before it could be certified
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A New Mexico news station reports that a teenager has been credited with landing and releasing a 55-pound blue catfish. If the fish had been properly weighed and certified, it might have broken the current state record. Alonso Ordaz, 13, was fishing with his father in their boat on Elephant Butte Lake. He was using a cut bait shad with a Muddy River Catfishing Demon Dragon when he hooked the monster. Ordaz’s father weighed the fish on a scale he had in their boat, and the cat bottomed out at 55-pounds. They released the fish after reviving it.