Fish story

[zakur]

Catfish tries to swallow basketball

Friday afternoon, Driver was standing on the deck of his house near 119th Street West and Central when he saw an eight-inch ball floating in Sandalwood Lake.

Noticing the ball wasn't floating normally, Driver wandered to his dock for a closer look. A catfish had its mouth stuck around the ball.

Driver hollered for his wife, Pam, to get a camera while he unrigged the sail from his nine-foot boat, wading into the lake and corralling the fish toward shore with the sail as a seine.

Several times, the flathead tried to dive, only to have the ball buoy it back to the surface.

Check out the photos. Incredible!

 

[a_unique_person]

Not really that funny, the rubbish we lose and discard actually kills the wildlife. There is a big move here to ban the plastic bags they give you at supermarkets to carry things in. A lot of them just end up strewn around the country and in the waterways, killing animals.

 

[Blue Monk]

Catfish tries to swallow basketball Check out the photos. Incredible!

Man, that is a damn big catfish. Mmmmmm tarter sauce.

 

[Bikewer]

Well, lose the stink bait, guys. It's kid's rubber balls and a #4 treble hook for me.

 

[Mel]

Not really that funny, the rubbish we lose and discard actually kills the wildlife. There is a big move here to ban the plastic bags they give you at supermarkets to carry things in. A lot of them just end up strewn around the country and in the waterways, killing animals.

Another big, big problem for wildlife are those plastic fasteners used to hold 6 packs of beer or soda. (I always cut the rings before tossing them in the trash)

 

[Chad Noles]

Anyone for Noodling?http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/columns/sutton_keith/1336494.html

 

[Nie Trink Wasser]

man....what is up with the catfish lately.....

this is the record breaking catfish that was caught yesterday.............

obviously I photoshopped the gut onto the bottom, but the fish size is genuine...

 

[fishbob]

My grandfather quit noodling catfish as a kid when he dragged a cottonmouth out from under a bank. His descendents all have been taught not to noodle. We are 3 generation of non-noodlers.