Article: Magazine puts catfish among angling elite

Can you believe this?

The ugly, stinking, slimy, egg-sucking, blood-bait loving, chicken guts-eating catfish has gone big time. Like Sak's Fifth Avenue or Neiman-Marcus.

No kidding.

Like kings and princes and other royalty of the fish world, such as bass, walleyes and muskies, the catfish now has its very own national magazine.

It is called, appropriately, "Catfish." It is published by In-Fisherman Inc., of Brainerd, Minn.

The magazine's editor in chief is named Doug Stange, but the big boss is Al Lindner, who is generally regarded as the king of kings by everyone and anyone who can tell a fin from a gill.

I have here a complimentary copy of the magazine's premiere issue, plus a letter ...

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