Really big blue catfish: Fish of the Week

Vince Strickland showed that blue catfish are coming along just fine at Braidwood Lake.

The young man from Country Club Hills caught this blue, so massive it bottomed out a 25-pound scale, on March 12 while they fished with cutbait.

“We caught several around 10 pounds,’’ he emailed. “Then I got this one about 9 a.m. We took pics and attempted to weight it. [We were] able to release it unharmed.’’

FOTW, the celebration of big fish and good stories, runs Wednesdays on the Sun-Times outdoors page.

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