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