01-24-2004, 06:05 PM
[center][size 4] [red]Texas angler gets record blue ![/red][/size][/center] [center] ![[Image: P2_f_fea_bluecat_rec04_LB1.jpg]](http://espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoors/fishing/i/P2_f_fea_bluecat_rec04_LB1.jpg)
Game warden Dale Moses, left, and Cody Mullennix showing off a potential world-record blue catfish pulled from Lake Texoma. [/center] [center][size 4] Try a 121-pound, 8-ounce blue catfish being pulled from the chilly waters of the 89,000-acre reservoir that straddles the Oklahoma-Texas border! [/size][/center] [center][size 2][blue]A check of the records indicates the 121½-pound blue catfish caught by Cody Mullennix on Friday, Jan. 16, at Lake Texoma will smash four records, [/blue]if all the paperwork is approved.[/size][/center] [center][size 2]![[Image: P2_f_fea_bluecat_rec04_LB2.jpg]](http://espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoors/fishing/i/P2_f_fea_bluecat_rec04_LB2.jpg)
[/size][/center] [center]Jason Holbrook, left, and Mullennix strain to display the hefty whiskerfish.[/center]
[size 2][/size] [center][blue][size 2]First, the big blue is poised to move past the benchmark in the International Game Fish Association's 20-pound line class. That fish, a 109¼-pounder, was caught by George A. Lijewski in March 1991 on South Carolina's Cooper River.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Second, the Texoma whiskerfish also is the heir apparent to the all-tackle record, eclipsing the 116¾-pound denizen that was taken from the Mississippi River in Arkansas in August 2001 by Charles Ashley Jr.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Third, the blue would rip up the Texas rod-and-reel record set in March 2000, when Reyes Martinez landed a 100-pound blue cat, which also came from 89,000-acre Lake Texoma.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Finally, the Mullennix catfish also should topple the Texas unrestricted state record for the species, besting the 116-pound blue catfish landed from a trotline in April 1985 by C.D. Martindale.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Where was that big trotline blue catfish taken? You guessed, it, Lake Texoma.[/size][/blue][blue][size 2] [/size][/blue][/center] [center]![[Image: P2_f_fea_bluecat_rec04_LB3.jpg]](http://espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoors/fishing/i/P2_f_fea_bluecat_rec04_LB3.jpg)
It may be a face only a mother could love, but the blue's heft is the envy of catfishers. [/center] [center]Texans are known for telling Whapper storys and here is prof that they are true! YaHuuu!!!!!![/center]
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Game warden Dale Moses, left, and Cody Mullennix showing off a potential world-record blue catfish pulled from Lake Texoma. [/center] [center][size 4] Try a 121-pound, 8-ounce blue catfish being pulled from the chilly waters of the 89,000-acre reservoir that straddles the Oklahoma-Texas border! [/size][/center] [center][size 2][blue]A check of the records indicates the 121½-pound blue catfish caught by Cody Mullennix on Friday, Jan. 16, at Lake Texoma will smash four records, [/blue]if all the paperwork is approved.[/size][/center] [center][size 2]
[/size][/center] [center]Jason Holbrook, left, and Mullennix strain to display the hefty whiskerfish.[/center] [size 2][/size] [center][blue][size 2]First, the big blue is poised to move past the benchmark in the International Game Fish Association's 20-pound line class. That fish, a 109¼-pounder, was caught by George A. Lijewski in March 1991 on South Carolina's Cooper River.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Second, the Texoma whiskerfish also is the heir apparent to the all-tackle record, eclipsing the 116¾-pound denizen that was taken from the Mississippi River in Arkansas in August 2001 by Charles Ashley Jr.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Third, the blue would rip up the Texas rod-and-reel record set in March 2000, when Reyes Martinez landed a 100-pound blue cat, which also came from 89,000-acre Lake Texoma.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Finally, the Mullennix catfish also should topple the Texas unrestricted state record for the species, besting the 116-pound blue catfish landed from a trotline in April 1985 by C.D. Martindale.[/size][/blue][/center]
[blue][size 2][/size][/blue] [center][blue][size 2]Where was that big trotline blue catfish taken? You guessed, it, Lake Texoma.[/size][/blue][blue][size 2] [/size][/blue][/center] [center]
It may be a face only a mother could love, but the blue's heft is the envy of catfishers. [/center] [center]Texans are known for telling Whapper storys and here is prof that they are true! YaHuuu!!!!!![/center]
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