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A Nebraska man caught a record-breaking 105-pound blue catfish in the Missouri River near Council Bluffs, Iowa.

The 60-inch fish is the largest blue catfish ever caught in Iowa, breaking a record from 2004.

After being officially weighed and measured, the record-setting catfish was released back into the river.

As the owner of his own fishing charter business specializing in large trophy catfishing expeditions, George Thompson is used to reeling in some big creatures.

In October, when the Nebraska native was out on the Missouri River near Council Bluffs with his family, he wasn't fishing for your typical catfish, but what he described as a "monster.'

"We had been out in the same section and hooked into this fish a week prior and lost it, so we were hunting for

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