West Virginia angler Allen Burkett caught this 37.5-pound channel catfish to break the state record that he set last summer. (Photo courtesy of West Virginia DNR)
Who says lightning doesn't strike the same place twice? It happened in the fishing world earlier this year in Tennessee, and now it's happened in West Virginia where a channel catfish angler has broken his own state record.
According to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, Allen Burkett of Moorefield caught his first state-record channel catfish last June using a chicken-liver to land a whiskerfish that weighed...