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Andy Thompson of The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports:

Nick Anderson, a 29-year-old Greenville, N.C., resident, hauled in a 143-pound blue catfish from Kerr Reservoir, also known as Buggs Island Lake, the nearly 50,000-acre impoundment on the Virginia-North Carolina border on Saturday.

Pending certification — and Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologists say everything about the entry seems legitimate — the fish will shatter both state and world records for the species.

Melting snow and wet weather closed the Shenandoah River crossing at Morgan’s Ford.

Morgan Ford Road

Here’s a picture from the low bridge taken during the fall:

Fishing in the Shenandoah