Man Breaks His Own Blue Catfish State Record

Lightning can strike twice, or at least it can when Tennessee catfish angler Micka Burkhart is on the water. On Wednesday Burkhart caught and released a likely new state-record blue catfish that weighed in at 122.3 pounds, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Burkhart is the same fisherman who caught and released the current 118-pound state-record blue catfish last year.

TWRA reports that Burkhart’s most recent monster cat was caught at noon from the Stewart County area of the Cumberland River.

Burkhart began fishing at 8 a.m. on June 28 and went to his favorite catfish spot on the Cumberland River. He caught a pair of big blues weighing 69 and 72 pounds that morning and was fishing a white bass head bait under a homemade planer board when the 122-pounder slammed the bait hard.

“It didn’t spool me, but it pulled lots of drag,” he told Chattanooga TV. Burkahart was fishing a revolving-spool…