Amazing Fish Story....
 

Sent to me in an email, along with pictures!

"This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday
Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. A
resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind
of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate.

It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had
obviously tried to swallow a child's 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 resident 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."


I'll email the pics to someone if they want to post them to abpf.

--riverman

In keeping with most things, I'm not the first to hear this:

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

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message
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In keeping with most things, I'm not the first to hear this:

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

--riverman

I once caught a catfish on a red and white plastic bobber. The bobber was a
little smaller than a tennis ball. The fish not as big as the one in the
picture but the catch was similar. We dicided we had rubbed eau de
earthworm on the bobber. The fish could have spit it out but didn't. It
fried up just like the ones that took the worms.

"riverman" wrote in message
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In keeping with most things, I'm not the first to hear this:

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

Ya just gotta love the good folks at Snopes!

A couple of weeks ago Becky got an email to which was attached a series of
photos purporting to show various severe weather phenomena along the front
of Katrina as it came in to the Gulf Coast. She forwarded the whole package
to me. Awesome photos! I thought about offering to forward it to anyone on
ROFF who might be interested.....but never got around to it. Just now while
poking around in Snopes, I found this:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp

Oh well. :)

Wolfgang
still, awesome photos!