280-pound catfish: Wels catfish caught by Italian fisherman could swallow a man

Examiner ^ | 2/25/15 | Tina Burgess

[OftheOhio]

When my dad was a young man there was reports of giant catfish in the Cumberland River of Kentucky. I believe so.

[9thLife]

Looks to be diesel powered but don’t see an exhaust port.

Must be a nuclear retro-fit.

[mcshot]

Good eye! :-)

[fso301]

The size of the mouth is grossly exaggerated due to nearness to the camera and the camera lens itself.

A 280 lb catfish is still a big fish.

[NonValueAdded]

LOL

[9thLife]

Must have swum near Fukashima.

[demshateGod]

That was “Pigzilla.” The biggest pig killed in Alabama or something. But you're right about the pic.

[demshateGod]

Where are you from? Yankee!

[demshateGod]

This is why Oklahoma is the best state.

[RegulatorCountry]

North Carolina, born and raised. Wild catfish do taste like mud. God only knows what they’ve eaten.

[ViLaLuz]

A catfish that size must taste like mud.

[Pelham]

Pigzilla, aka ‘Fred’....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Pig

[OftheOhio]

There was a 100 plus pound Pike caught in the Muskingum river in the 1800’s in Ohio. I believe there still are huge fish still out there.

[Vendome]

Okay, so riddle me this:

Q
What keeps Texas from falling into the Gulf of Mexico?

A
Oklahoma sucks

(((shudder and ducking)))

[jmacusa]

LOL!!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I used to eat carp caught in the Arkansas river at Tulsa. Lots of bones was the only drawback.

[RegulatorCountry]

Can’t say I’ve ever eaten carp.

[driftless2]

Photoshopped. And a fish that size would weigh closer to 1000 lbs, not 280.

[youngphys01]

Yeah that think could at the very least have little difficulty swallowing a small child whole. In many lakes and rivers the largest catfish are for sure considered a legitimate danger when children are swimming; when catfish are active there are reports of kids going underwater and never rising back up.

[353FMG]

Worthy of a Knights of Columbus’ Friday fish fry.