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From _The-Dispatch:
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_David Haynes, gain[ed] notoriety for catching a 21-pound channel catfish with a Barbie Doll fishing outfit in August 2008, [setting the new North Carolina state record].
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_But Haynes has had to relinquish his state-record cat to an angler who caught a bigger channel catfish back in 1970.
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_After reading media coverage about the channel catfish state record, E.J. Bowden of Rocky Mount . . . informed the NCWRC he had caught a bigger channel catfish weighing 23 pounds, 4 ounces from City Lake in Rocky Mount in 1970, and he had the paperwork and photo to prove it . . . .
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_[Now,] the [state Wildlife and Resources] Commission [has] accepted Bowden’s channel cat as the official state record.

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