Big Catfish

While white bass fishing on Lake Houston, I began watching the fella on the boat about 50 yards from where I was fishing.  I noticed he appeared to have a nice fish on his line.  His boat drifted further from me then closer to me being pulled around as if he had a whale on the end of his rod.  After watching this for about 20 minutes I noticed him lean over grab his catch never removing it from the water but putting it on a stringer and tied the stringer to the side of his boat.  We started up a conversation from afar and after a bit he decided to troll over closer to let me in on his catch.  The fish he pulled up was a massive blue catfish.  The largest I had ever seen that was not on video or photos.  See photo below.  Caught on a minnow while fishing for crappie.