I landed a flathead catfish that bumped the scales at 20 lbs. on a watermelon zoom tube while bass fishing on Herrington yesterday. Man what a battle!! The tube fishing for bass at Herrington has great over the last month but this cat tops it all. I spent nearly 20 minutes landing this leviathan on my medium action 6 ft. rod and reel spooled with 10 lb. mono. I swear my arms were aching!! Now I feel confident if I should ever hook a 20 lb. bass on this rod and reel that I can land it.....grin