Posted on 03/12/2015 8:05:08 AM PDT by C19fan
A stingray weighing nearly 800lb has become the largest freshwater fish ever caught by rod and line. The gigantic flat fish, which was 8ft wide and 14ft long, took nearly two hours to reel in. It was caught by American TV nature conservationist Jeff Corwin on the Mae Klong river in Thailand earlier this week.
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Fish on! Fish on!
Did they show blowing it up with a stick of TNT?
Fish Fry! Fish Fry!!
I did not know that stingrays could be found in fresh water. I thought they were exclusively salt water. Learn something new every day.
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a freshwater Stingray. Guess I’ll have to look more carefully every time I jump into my pool!
They released it I hope....didn’t say in the video.
I live in Florida, and I was walking across a very high bridge that goes over an arm of what is essentially an estuary. I glanced over the rail and saw what looked like a huge sheet flapping under the water - a ray, of course. Even given the magnifying effect of the water, which was really only a few feet deep at that point, this was one monster ray. It was flapping its way down towards the ocean.
They’re so unobtrusive, just gliding along under the surface (until those moments when they suddenly leap out of the water!), and sport fishermen don’t usually fish for them intentionally, so you just forget that they’re there...and how big they can get!
It was probably brackish water; this may be a delta or an estuary. I saw my monster ray in what is locally called a “river,” but it’s actually an estuary, has tides, etc. and the rays swim into it from the ocean.
That’s nothing compared to the giant catifsh I caught below the dam at Lake Barkley, Ky. Easily a ton and a half. Hooked it on a pocket fisherman with steel leaders. It took two backhoes and a bulldozer using steel cable to pull it to shore. It fed an entire city for three weeks during the blizzard of ‘78 - saved a lot of lives those fillets did. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
We have a sailboat in a marina and at certain times of the year the batrays and skates come in to lay on the rocks by our walkway. I stand and watch them for what seems like hours. I caught myself following a baby octopus there one day for an hour. lol
I just love sea life.
That!! is one big ray.
I would have thought Sturgeon would have been bigger?
2 hours to reel it in?
Conservationist, my butt.
More like tortured an animal to get a record.
Around here, hunting and fishing puts food on the table. It isn’t about bragging rights.
I agree, I love watching these critters too! The bridge (which goes over to a barrier island/sand bar named Vilano Beach) is a great vantage point, and I’ve seen all sorts of things swimming along under there.
Leni
I spend a lot of time on the boat so get to watch a lot. I love the birds too. One night I was sitting there watching tv and I kept hearing a repeated BANG! off the transom. When I got up and opened the companionway to see what it was I saw George, a heron I had named cause he had been hanging out on my dock. He was fishing off my swimstep.
My neighbor has lights under his trawler and at certain times of the year when the sea lions are everywhere he’ll turn them on to draw in the bait fish. Soon we’ll have 40 or so sea lions all writhing and jumping next to our boats.
We’ve also had a pod of dolphins fishing in the harbor. You can hear them coming like a freight train if you are below deck.
I love it!!
LOL! That sounds like a fishin story.
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