Thanks to his beloved Lake Gaston, Zakk Royce is living his dream. “Growing up, I spent every free moment I had fishing with my dad,” says the 25-year-old native of Murfreesboro, N.C., located about an hour east of the lake. “We’d often spend whole weekends at a time on the lake fishing.”  His practice paid off: In December, Royce caught a 91-pound record-setting blue catfish. And then he caught another one, just 18 hours later, that weighed in at 105 pounds to break his own stat... read more