Monster Catfish!

[Sudsrat]

A friend sent me this.Don't know when it was caught but.... WOW!

The Big ONE!

This is a picture of a catfish that a guy recently caught at Lake
Texoma. According to the news, he was fishing from the shore with a 20
pound test line. When he realized what a huge fish he had caught, he
stayed in the water with it and kept it close to shore with his hands. He
used his cell phone to call a friend and tell him to bring a
scale. The friend got there and the scale topped out at 100 pounds.
They took it to the nearby Bait shop and weighed it there. It weighed 121
pounds!

Luckily a Game Warden was there and called the Athens Freshwater
Fisheries Center and asked them if they wanted the fish. They sent a 'live
truck' to the site and brought the fish safely to Athens. They are
getting it ready for the public to view. The paper said that it would be two
to three weeks before they'd release into the public tank.. They
estimated that the 121 pound catfish was 27 years old...............
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5dc03b3127cce903fc0b66a3a00000015108ActW7Ny4Ytr

[ 02-22-2005, 08:02 PM: Message edited by: Sudsrat ]

[Reelman73088]

Thats a monster man I'd love to have been the one to have to fight that thing in on 20# test. That must have taken a while. Even holding that fish with your hands would be tough. Damn thats huge. Nice pic sudsrat.

[bucktail3]

wels, they grow to about 800 pounds. I thought they were only in Europe, but I guess not.

[Gilly21]

That looks like one mighty big fish fry. I got the deep fryer and peanut oil.

[joey2boats]

That's one awesome cat.

[design]

Originally posted by bucktail3:
wels, they grow to about 800 pounds. I thought they were only in Europe, but I guess not. Your right, check it out on www.snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com)

Fish is real, location is not.

[dante413]

I think I've seen this pic before and I don't think these guys were fishing with a rod and reel. I believe they were noodling; reaching down with their hands in catfish holes and pulling them up.

[mch]

I've seen footage of him swiming around in the public aquarium they keep him in now. They feed him chicken parts...no joke.

[ReelQuick]

Could you amagin noodling for cats and have that monster bite down on your arm?Lucky he still has his arm.I wonder if thats what spooled my 750 ss in the Delaware river?Where are they keeping him?

[MargaritaVille]

There are some big cats in texas, I thought in the 100lb class range, but not 800!

[mch]

I think that pic may be of a wels taken in Europe but the world reccord blue cat went about 100-120 & it was caught by a guy with a rod & reel & currently lives in a public aquarium & they feed it chicken, bones & all. I saw footage of a diver feeding it.

[ANDY L]

That looks like the one i lost in the river right around Washington Crossing last summer. :D :D

[Darrin G. DGREENEMACHINE]

read the story they would have killed the fish long before it ever got into any tank.

[flukerat]

where's the pic?

[kev316]

i saw that pic on an internet hoax site,it was caught in england,i think.i got one out of haddon lake 2 years ago that weighed 24 lbs.i sent it to in fisherman and tied for first place in the us on channel cats.they sent me a certificate and a patch.i was hoping for a real prize.