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Article: Besides bass, Potomac is home of catfish, too.(Sports)(Outdoors)

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September 2, 1996
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It's a shame the International Game Fish Association, the keeper of world fishing records, does not have a special category for 14-pound testline. If it did, the next time it updated its books Maryland angler Carroll Fraley would be listed as a world record holder for the 36 3/4-pound blue catfish he caught in the Potomac River. Unfortunately, IGFA line class records jump from 12- to 16-pound test, leaving no room for 14-pound monofilament.

At 1 a.m. on Aug. 18, Fraley and a friend dropped hooks baited with chunks of cut-up fallfish into a 35-foot-deep ledge of water where Swan Creek meets the Potomac. It was there Fraley's partner, Paul "Pug" Finneyfrock, ...

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