RECORD CATFISH CAUGHT IN YELLOW RIVER

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says a Santa Rosa County fisherman set a new state record when he caught a flathead catfish weighing 69.3 pounds. Marvin Griffin caught the catfish on rod and reel in the Yellow River using live bait. He brought it to the FWC’s Blackwater Hatchery near Holt, where biologists weighed it on a certified scale. The fish was 47 inches long with a girth of 34.25 inches. The former state record was a catfish weighing 63.8 pounds that was caught in the Chattahoochee River in Jackson County in 2016.