As the owner of his own fishing charter business specializing in large trophy catfishing expeditions, George Thompson is used to reeling in some big creatures.
In October, when the Nebraska native was out on the Missouri River near Council Bluffs with his family, he wasn’t fishing for your typical catfish, but what he described as a “monster.’
“We had been out in the same section and hooked into this fish a week prior and lost it, so we were hunting for that fish basically,” said Thompson, owner of Missouri River Catfish Guides. “We had set up in the area I thought it might have been in, and after about 10 minutes, I got a bite.”…