Hello Bob.

15 Nov 07 06:57, you wrote to me:

 JB>> Did you see on the news, LA has a new state record for Warsaw
 JB>> Grouper? It's 329 lbs. and was caught in 400 feet of water off
 JB>> Fourchon. It dwarfed the guy who caught it in the picture.

 BA> About 35 years ago some guy pulled a *huge* catfish out of the base
 BA> lake at Offutt AFB.  If memory serves it was about seven feet long and
 BA> weighed over 350 pounds.  The (since defunct) Bellevue paper ran a
 BA> picture of the thing hanging by its tail and the guy who caught it
 BA> standing next to it, the fish was bigger.

Catfish growing that large is not only amazing, but scary.  One like that
could eat a child in one gulp.

It's hard to believe fish we normally see as less than 10 lbs grow to such sizes.


Joe

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