I did the exact same thing below the Gavins point dam on the south dakota nebraska border water, wanna know the thing that will really make you mad, Cabelas or Bass pro would have given you about 25,000$ for that fish, the world record cat fish in texas went for over $125,000. Mine was over 42" and broke the 35# scale i had onboard. Welcome to my club of repeatedly kicking yourself in the butt over a drum, by the way mine was over 6 yrs ago and im still kickin myself.