Brayden Rogers, 13, of Cisco, caught a giant blue cat on Lake Tawakoni on March 16. The 67.1-pound lunker is now the pending junior state and lake record blue catfish.
Rogers was fishing with Guide Noel Ibarra of Tawakoni Guide Service on March 16.
The current junior state record for blue cat is 66.20 pounds and was caught on Lake Worth in 2011.
Rogers’ catfish was weighed at Trot Line Bait and Tackle in West Tawakoni. He donated the fish to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, where it will be studied and information will be used by biologists to better understand and grow larger blue catfish.
This is the second record-breaking catfish this month landed by one of Ibarra’s customers. On March 2, Josh Garcia, of Midland, caught a 47-pound channel catfish, another pending state-record.
