Alabama teenager breaks Florida flathead catfish record

ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama teenager has set a Florida state record for catching the biggest flathead catfish.
Multiple news media reports that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says 13-year-old Charles Patchen of Gordon, Alabama, caught a 63.8-pound flathead. Patchen pulled in the enormous catfish on a Zebco 33 reel with a 14-pound test line on May 15 in the Chattahoochee River in Jackson County.
It took Patchen nearly two hours to land the big fish. The fish needed to b