David Figura is reporting for NYup [dot] com an Albany County man last month broke the state fishing record for a white catfish. Chris Brockett, of Loudonville, caught the fish, which looks like a cross between a channel catfish and a bullhead, in the Mohawk River on Aug. 22. It weighed 12 pounds and measured 30.5 inches long. He caught the big fish with cut bait. The previous state record was a 10.5-pound catfish caught by Joe Silicato on a jig and cut bait in 1998, on the New Croton Reservoir in Westchester County. Brockett said he caught his white catfish at 10:30 p.m. while fishing from shore near Waterford. “I grew up catching striped bass on the Connecticut (ocean) shore.I get into a big fish, I’m taking it in,” the 29-year-old angler said. Brockett said he still has some paperwork to fill out, but he has been notified by the Department of Environmental Conservation he does have the state record. Read the full story at newyorkupstate [dot] com.