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Hey, I know catching an 11 pound catfish is not a big deal for some people, but I have never caught an 11 pound fish of any breed before. But…

That’s not what makes this so interesting This channel cat was caught on a bass bait – a fluke.

No, I don’t mean a fluke like by accident (though it kinda was), but the soft plastic bass bait used for largemouth bass.

Again, that’s not all that unusual, but it’s also not that ordinary.

Anyway, I was hard after the bass that day at a private lake in Texas, and I was having a pretty good day. I came up to this small pier and decided to fish around it and ‘boom’ – hook-up!

I figured I had a bass but it was acting a lot different. It’s hard to describe what felt ‘different’ about it, but if you fish a lot, you probably know what I mean. To start with, the catfish didn’t hit the bait like a bass usually does. It wasn’t a hard strike.

Even so, I fought this kitty for a long time before I realized it was not a bass. After I got a glimpse of it, I knew it was big, but I still didn’t know how big. I never knew just how big it was until I got it completely out of the water. Here’s another pic of it…

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