catfish

[muskie770]

wonder what he thought he was eating?

[bb]

He is big. Wonder if that ball is as big as a grapefruit ?

[Airhead]

Thats awesome!

[badboy]

[i_got_ideas]

I hope that's not a full size B-ball .

Did you get him to bite on that or did you just see it while lookin' for other fishies?

Not everyday you can get a pic of something like that.

[i_got_ideas]

Really man.....is that a full size ball?

I saw where the air goes in and it looks like a full size ball to me, that would mean that is one monster fish. The biggest I've seen is 27lbs., the biggest I've caught was 13.5lbs. with a trusty Zebco 22 .

[Chad711]

Muskie770, you in Minnesota?

[Chad711]

OOps I see your in PA.

I was out Muskie Hunting all day yesterday, no go..Alot of follows...

[Swampfox]

Cool, I'll have to try some basketballs on my trotline now lol...

heres one we caught last year, usually get a few big flatheads (50+ lbs)a year.

[bb]

I'm sure the bigger catfish taste terrible. 1- 1.5 #'s is an ideal weight for good flavor.

[muskie770]

I got those pics in an email from a friend so I dont know where it was from. I guess someone deflated the ball and saved the fish.

found the story:

This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle
> > Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. Was in a housing development around
> 119th
> > st. South and Maple. Anyhow a resident in the area saw a ball bouncing
> > around kind of strange like in the developments pond and when he went
to
> > investigate, it was a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to
swallow
> > a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth. The fish was
> totally
> > exhausted from trying to dive but unable to because the ball would
always
> > bring him back up to the surface. The resident tried numerous times to
> get
> > the ball out but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the
ball
> in
> > order to deflate the ball and release the catfish.

other pics:





[Edited by muskie770 on 07-03-2004 at 09:57 AM]

[Chad711]

WoW!

[Swampfox]

That is wild...dont see that every day lol

I dont care much for the big flatheads, we mainly catch the blues in the 8-15 lb range...yummy!

[amickracing]

Badboy, in the 1st pic you posted, are them Australian cat fish?

*rimshot*

I'm here all week folks!

Pretty cool pix though, I've never caught any kind of fish that big, but something tells me it'd get your heart racing for sure.

[badboy]

No, australian camera.