Gone Fishin'?

[Elliott]

A guy who lives at Lake Conroe (50 miles north of Houston) saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a 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 guy tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish..

You probably wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the following pictures...

 

[Macdaddy4738]

hahahaha! I guess this proves the whole, catfish will eat anything rumor.

That fish is huge too!

 

[burley]

that catfish is big, definitely not huge. google catfish. youll see some huge catfish

 

[SSWaters]

That's some cool pictures, everyone at work like'd it.

 

[highrollintj]

thats a tournament winning flat head right there and would have been some damn good eating, but he did the right thing by helping it out.

 

[mbalbritton]

Catfish Bait check list: Chicken Livers, Shrimp.... Kids Red Basketball......

 

[Tetanus]

Pictures are real, but location is wrong. It's within a few hours of where i grew up...in Kansas.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp

 

[jeepin1995]

THIS:
http://www.break.com/index/huge_fish.html

is a huge catfish.

 

[Elliott]

Pictures are real, but location is wrong. It's within a few hours of where i grew up...in Kansas.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp

I dunno, they are known for their ballin' fish.

 

[rattlecanpaint]

THIS:
http://www.break.com/index/huge_fish.html
is a huge catfish.

At what point does it become a whale? Damn!

 

[dixiemudder04]

screw that. i wouldve netted it and put it in the boat. then took the ball out of his mouth.