Jason Burns with his 53-pound-plus lake record caught in Twin Buttes Reservoir.
New Lake Record at Twin Buttes?
Texas Parks & Wildlife Inland Fisheries
Big blue tips the scales at 53.65 pounds
For the first time in more than two decades, the record for the biggest blue catfish at Twin Buttes Reservoir has been broken. On January 31, Jason Burns landed a 53.65-pound, 44-inch-long blue catfish—just edging past the long-standing 52.5-pound record set in 2002 by John de la Cerda. Burns’ catch is now the pending waterbody record for the 9,080-acre reservoir, located six miles southwest of San Angelo, Texas. The fish was successfully released back into Twin Buttes, ready to challenge another angler in the future.
This marks the second time in a year that a Twin Buttes blue cat has set a record. On February 25, 2024, nine-year-old Jaxon Yoakum landed a 51.5-pound, 46-inch-long blue catfish—shattering the previous Junior Angler record of 8.95 pounds set in 2021. Yoakum’s record has since been officially confirmed.
With two record-breaking catches in less than a year, Twin Buttes is proving to be a hotspot for trophy blue catfish. Anglers might want to keep their lines tight—because the next record-breaker could be just a cast away.
