A woman is getting a lot of attention online after catching a whopping 88-pound catfish on Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shared a photo Monday, showing Paula Cathey Smith with her personal best catch. Smith told The Tennessean that she had grown used to catching a big catfish every week over the last year but hadn’t hooked one in the last two weeks and was in a drought.That changed when she reeled in the 88-pounder."Everything's been messed up for about a month now; I've been managing to catch fish, I'm just not catching my big guys," Smith told The Tennessean. "We had been out about 30 minutes Sunday and I threw out a fresh gizzard shad and bam! He hit it right off the bat."Smith said it took 10 minutes to get the fish into the boat. After the monster fish was caught, Smith released it back into the wild. Since the photo was posted, it has been shared more than 1,200 times on Facebook.

A woman is getting a lot of attention online after catching a whopping 88-pound catfish on Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shared a photo Monday, showing Paula Cathey Smith with her personal best catch. Smith told The Tennessean that she had grown used to catching a big catfish every week over the last year but hadn’t hooked one in the last two weeks and was in a drought.


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That changed when she reeled in the 88-pounder.



"Everything's been messed up for about a month now; I've been managing to catch fish, I'm just not catching my big guys," Smith told The Tennessean. "We had been out about 30 minutes Sunday and I threw out a fresh gizzard shad and bam! He hit it right off the bat."

Smith said it took 10 minutes to get the fish into the boat. After the monster fish was caught, Smith released it back into the wild.

Since the photo was posted, it has been shared more than 1,200 times on Facebook.