Congrats! I caught one, at 1:00 a.m. that weighed only 20 pounds and it put up a good fight. My spouse had to help me get it in the boat and it almost fell out of the dip net. My dear helpful companion gave it a bear hug to hold onto it and slipped and fell at the same time. I saw catfish on top, spouse on bottom, catfish on bottom, spouse on top. Finally we got it on a stringer and I said, "Don't you know catfish don't like to be hugged?" It took me a week to get the slime out of the carpet from all that hugging and rolling around with the catfish.