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Article: East Texas Man Is Hooked on the Biggest Catfish (Story) of Them All
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 23, 1996
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The catfish is not just huge, it is monstrous. To hear Don
Allen tell it -- and he tells it as often as anyone will listen --
it is as big as a small pickup truck, as elusive as a dream,
patrolling the deep, clear waters of Lake Livingston like some
mustachioed kingpin.
Stories abound about the creature, few of them confirmed, all
of them part of the folklore of this fishing country -- way out in
east Texas, where the pine forests are thick and quiet, and
alligators slither up the river banks. Stories about small-airplane
pilots looking down to see a thousand-pound bruiser parting the
waters, leaving a wake. Stories about divers who vowed never to
return after a face-to-face ...