That is sickening! I actually have a good friend who used to/still does(I'm pretty sure) set trotlines on Lake Conroe. He hauls in at least one catfish that weighs more than 60 pounds a year. I remember one year, he caught one that broke his 80 pound scale.
i remember watching a documentary on pbs about okie noodling fishing or whatever. they had fish that size.
Huge freakish fishes probably taste nasty from all the parasites living inside it. Might need its weight in MSG to save it. Better off throwing it back so it can spawn more big fishes.
Hmm, this is how we HongKongers fish... Shark fishing with bare hands Its a bit boring at the beginning and I think you can simply skip to the last 2 minutes of the clip.
I remember that, I'd be completely freaked out if I caught that. A couple kids caught a 60lb catfish in Oyster Creek in Sugar Land a couple years back, they got in the paper and everything.
Prolly due less to parasites than to age. Older generally = tougher & more gamey. Goes for pretty much any game animal or fish. Looked like at the end he was releasing her back...good for them. Most impressive thing about that is that the did it on a rod & reel.
I saw pictures of guys with fish this size in just about every mom & pop gas station in East Texas and Arkansas that I stopped at on the way to a canoe trip about 10 years ago. It's scary to think that these things never stop growing.
I think those guys threw that one back in the lake, I think they show it at the end of the video. Even though it's just a fish, I'd feel bad taking it's life since it's so big.
