ST. LOUIS -- Greg Bernal has some fish story to tell.
The 47-year-old Florissant man was fishing in the Missouri River just before 1 a.m. Tuesday when he snagged a catfish -- a 130-pound catfish.
The website for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported it appears to be a state record, topping a 117-pound catfish caught on a trotline in the Osage River in 1964.
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