The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says a record-breaking flathead catfish was caught in the Yellow River. Lavon Nowling from Santa Rosa County caught the monster catfish on rod and reel using live bait. It weighed 69.9 pounds and was 48.5 inches long. Nowling brought the fish to the FWC’s Blackwater Hatchery near Holt, where biologists weighed it on a certified scale. The last state record flathead catfish was caught in 2019 in the same river and weighed 69.3 pounds.