{"id":300892,"date":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300892\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:38:08","slug":"monster-catfish-caught-in-pittsburgh-could-be-new-state-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300892\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster catfish caught in Pittsburgh could be new state record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791301088_452_4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A massive catfish was reeled in in Pittsburgh over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Tim Reddinger from Reddi Bait in Beaver shared photos and videos of the enormous catch made by Dave Taylor  with Pittsburgh Action News 4 on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The giant catfish weighs in  at 36.1 pounds and could be a new state record.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Reddinger tells us that Taylor caught the monster catfish under the Hot Metal Bridge. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">We are still waiting to learn the species of the catfish and whether or not it will become a Pennsylvania State Record. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Watch the release in the video player below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A massive catfish was reeled in in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Tim Reddinger from Reddi Bait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123880,6095,53387,95811,123885,123891,123886,123884,48909,123878,123883,123890,28,123879,11520,73,13360,13351,75,74,7065,123889,123882,123887,1944,40446,123881,420,2832,123888],"class_list":["post-300892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-36-1-pounds","tag-beaver","tag-catfish","tag-catfish-species","tag-caught-in-pittsburgh","tag-enormous-catch","tag-fish-catch","tag-giant-catfish","tag-hot-metal-bridge","tag-massive-catfish","tag-monster-catfish","tag-new-state-record","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-state-record","tag-photo","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-action-news","tag-pittsburgh-action-news-4","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pound","tag-record-catfish","tag-reddi-bait","tag-reel-in","tag-release","tag-state-record","tag-tim-reddinger","tag-video","tag-weekend","tag-weekend-catch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}