Was night fishing for crappie a few weeks ago in a cove right before a dam, in 30ft of water at different depths cause the crappie were scattered at different depths, but wasnt catching very many so i decided to throw my big catfish rod with a small crappie head on it out and let it sit. It sat there for about an hour and i looked over and seen the rod completely bent over, i fought it for about 45mins mostly getting it up to the surface and got it in the boat, it turned out to be a 49lb 54in channel cat. It had broke someone elses line recently cause there was a hook with about 6ft of line still in its mouth. So i got my hook out and the hook that was already there out and released it. Im still kicking myself for not having a camera, i really didnt see the need for one as we were just going for crappie. Ill never leave to go fishing again without my camera thats for dang sure.