By Verna Slate, Williamson County Bureau
WILLIAMSON COUNTY — A Southern Illinois first grader landed a 50-pound catfish on the Ohio River, according to KFVS12 — the kind of catch that gets talked about at Sunday dinner for years to come.
This county's rivers and lakes have always pulled people out of town on a Saturday, whether it's Crab Orchard Lake or the Ohio itself down toward the county line. A 50-pound fish on a kid's line is the sort of story that doesn't need embellishing — the scale does the talking.
Full details on where exactly along the river the catch happened, and how the family managed to boat a fish that size, weren't spelled out beyond KFVS12's report. Either way, it's the kind of good news this desk is glad to pass along without a single official statement attached to it.
— Compiled from reporting by KFVS12.
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