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Is this Catfish real????????

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posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 04:09 PM
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www.robmatherly.com...

[edit on 12-6-2005 by Boatphone]


Sorry broken link...mods please get ride of this post, sorry.

[edit on 12-6-2005 by Boatphone]



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 04:12 PM
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Could be, I have seen one that was even bigger than that one.
Bull Shoals lake has several where their mouths are bigger than garbage can lids. Pretty scary.



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 04:23 PM
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If your talking about this pic, then no, I think it was proven to be a hoax!

www.funny-games.biz...


Now, if your talking about this one, then yeah, it is real and a record.

www.cnn.com...

They were going to transfer it to an aquarium at a Cabelas, or someplace similar, but saddly it died before it could be transfered. Probably due to the stress and age of the fish. It is amazing how large these "cats" can get. Pretty scary when you think about the monsters that could be lurking at the bottom of some of our rivers or lakes.



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 04:24 PM
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I think this link has the same pic as yours but it adds some info about the Wels. I have an old book about fish that shows one that looks to be about 10'-12' long.

www.thejump.net...



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 04:30 PM
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Thanks to you both.


That second pic is awesome!



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 04:35 PM
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If you like the big catfish theres also this guy from Asia called the Mekong catfish.

www.sciencedaily.com...



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 05:21 PM
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Originally posted by DB Cooper
If you like the big catfish theres also this guy from Asia called the Mekong catfish.

www.sciencedaily.com...


Here is a page with a bunch of Mekong Catfish pics. Some of them are fraqin huge!

Big Catfish Pic Page



posted on Jun, 12 2005 @ 10:56 PM
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Then you get those damn noodlers


imagine reaching into a hole and having one of those bite down on ya. good luck bringing it up!

Noodling



Noodling for Catfish

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posted on Jun, 14 2005 @ 11:21 PM
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Yes, the catfish with the 2 guys holding it is real.
It's a Wells Catfish, and they get bigger than that.
So unless you have a CLUE about what your going to type out, then keep it to yourself skychief, because if you knew a blue cat from a wells, you'd know it was a wells cat the guys are holding the minute you saw it.
I've been fishing since I was 4, mainly FOR catfish, so stop the nonsense.



posted on Jun, 14 2005 @ 11:22 PM
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And the blue cat you listed is a record for Illinois (I live here) and the US, possibly the world IGFA record as well, but there are MANY big catfish, that grow to be as large.

Flathead cats
Blue cats
Wells catfish
Mekong catfish



posted on Jun, 15 2005 @ 12:53 PM
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The biggest Catfist ive caught was 12lbs in Kentucky Lake. still it was a big ugly mo fo.

Where are Wells catfish found.? US.? Russia.?

I wanna catch one.



posted on Jun, 18 2005 @ 06:40 PM
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The Wels are in Europe but I think the real big ones are kind of rare now days.



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 10:38 AM
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i believe that catfish was caught in lake texoma
found an article on it here im a catfisherman my self so far mi bigest catch is an 18 lb blue cat see yall later

urbanlegends.about.com/.../bl_2004_catfish.htm

[edit on 21-4-2007 by cat daddy]



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 02:12 PM
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I don't know if it's real or not. Judging by the men's expressions, probably not. However, when the state of Texas first put a bridge across the Trinity River in Riverside,Texas, the first crew they sent to do it refused to. They claimed that they saw fish as big a Volkswagons on the bottom of the Trinity River.

[edit on 21-4-2007 by SpeakerofTruth]



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 02:34 PM
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Speaker, that is a well known urban legend. A lake here in Nebraska has the same story, except it was a crew making repairs to a dam. I also heard the same story from some locals in the Ozarks.


It's probably somewhat true, but who really knows where it may have originated.



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 02:34 PM
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I did some research today to see if I could find if that photo was a hoax or not.. I didnt come across anything that could validate that picture.. But looks real enough..
You want to see a really big cat fish here you go.
Mekong Giant Catfish
news.nationalgeographic.com...

news.nationalgeographic.com...

Now that would be one hell of a catch!! pardon my french but its how us outdoors types talk about fishin! Hell Im just happy to be out in nature with a few friends and some cold ones



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 03:51 PM
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Originally posted by nextguyinline
Speaker, that is a well known urban legend. A lake here in Nebraska has the same story, except it was a crew making repairs to a dam. I also heard the same story from some locals in the Ozarks.





I don't know about it being an "urban legend" or what not, but it is something I heard. It seems to me that everything people find hard to believe gets labeled an "urban legend," so I don't throw that term around much.



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 08:39 PM
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Sorry I hurt your feelings.


I qualified your statement with my second sentence.




Such stories pop up all over the country in countless rivers and lakes and reservoirs, often with details startlingly similar to the ones from Elephant Butte - but this shouldn't make us think any less of our stories.

Our stories may be unproven. They may lack physical evidence or firsthand witnesses, and they may have every hallmark of an urban legend, but they do have one thing going for them: Nowhere else in America are the fabled catfish ever so big.


From here



posted on Apr, 21 2007 @ 08:53 PM
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Searching urban legends can be fun.
I found this : Link

Pretty neat, I thought.

Lex



posted on Apr, 22 2007 @ 02:35 PM
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Yeah the urban myths of Leprechauns in the hood have me lmao!

They are serious to when they see some crack head in the trees!!!


Oh lets not forget the Candyman!!!
I think if a hood needs a creature to mess with them, those little critters are the ones in our governments.. Are those gremlins? Oh wait they are called congress..

Mockin and scoffin! oh yah!







 
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