Channel cat or blue cat

[tstraub]

This morning I caught this fish that I'm not sure if it's a channel or a blue.  It's color was a lot lighter and more blue than any of the other cats I've caught here.  Sorry the color in the picture is not real good because I had him on a stringer for a few hours before I took the pic and he lost a lot of color.  Anyway since he was a legal fish either way we had him for dinner.  Just wondering what you guys think.  I'm leaning towards channel but not sure.  I know both species are in the river here but to my knowledge I've never caught a blue unless this is one.

[soflabasser]

Channel catfish

[Bluebasser86]

Channel, blues have straight anal fins, channels have rounded ones like that fish.

[Ratherbfishing]

anorexic channel cat