Awesome fish. The confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi are a blue cat mecca. I fish these waters all the time and it is nothing to catch a 30 pounder. It usually takes about 120 lb limit to win a tournament on these waters. You need heavy gear: reel, rod and boat; the current is hard to explain you just have to witness it. We anchored one time right where the two rivers meet in my bro in laws 20ft sea ark. After anchoring; the boat was vibrating from the current so bad we left after about 5 minutes. My biggest catch is 52lb but every year I see several guys haul in 80 pounders.

WOW! Awesome job F&S getting the story this fast, the local news here in MO barely gave it 20 seconds last night. Great story, amazing fish!

What a fish!!! Be great to catch a cat even half that size.

Big bluecat, great catch, I know there are bigger ones out there just waiting to be caught.

So, when't the Fish Fry? Or is an extra freezer being bought to store it?

Nice cat

WOW,and to think that I'm impressed with my 20lb channel cats on the RED River of the North. Can't imagine 130lbs. Way to go Greg!

Too bad he didn't weigh it and then release it back into the river. It is important to keep this big in the river and reproducing the next generations of catfish.

congrats on catching the river monster keep it up!! (ill love to know what you used for bait)

umm, hate to be the bearer of bad news. but your tags were expired

I caught a 68-pound blue catfish on the MS river several years back. After reading about the measurements of his fish, I'm amazed that mine was only 6" shorter (51 inches) than the world record, even though it's roughly half the weight.

Just goes to show you how much girth they put on in those later years of life!