CRYPTOLINK: Largest fish ever caught in Arizona is a true freshwater monster

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  Several lakes around the world are thought to harbor monsters from Loch Ness to Lake Tahoe.

Now you can add Arizona's Bartlett Lake to that list, as one angler recently proved. Eddie Wilcoxson, 56, was sleeping on his pontoon boat at 2 a.m. when something truly gigantic began tugging on his 60-pound braided fishing line. After a 35-minute struggle, Wilcoxson finally caught sight of his Bartlett Lake monster: a behemoth flathead catfish.

"When it came close to the boat, I saw there was only one treble hook in the corner of his mouth," explained Wilcoxson, "so I backed off on the drag. If not, it would have ripped right out of his mouth."

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