Man who never caught a fish over 20 pounds hauled in a likely state-record 113.7-pound flathead catfish

Man who never caught a fish over 20 pounds hauled in a likely state-record 113.7-pound flathead catfish

Joe Driggers, 29, a police sergeant in Florence, South Carolina, has spent much of his life fishing on the Great Pee Dee River, but never approached reeling in a fish within 60 pounds of the state record. Now he appears headed for the state record books after landing a flathead catfish that weighed a remarkable 113.7 pounds, as Wired2fish reported. What happened? Fishing near Florence with his younger brothers, Sam and Judd, Driggers had the boa…