Posted on 02/25/2015 7:26:31 PM PST by randita
The 280-pound catfish caught by an Italian fisherman is a record-setting wels catfish. With an enormous weight of 280 pounds and a length of 8.8 feet, the catfish caught by Dino Ferrari has some people wondering whether the monstrous catfish could in fact eat a man if it wanted to do so.
According to a Feb. 24 USA Today report, the photo taken of the Italian fisherman and his massive catch certainly seems to show “that this thing could just swallow an adult if it wanted to. It’s enormous.”
Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught the wels catfish on Thursday in the Po Delta, which is part of the famous Po River. With a length of more than 400 miles, the Po River is the longest river in Italy. The Po River and the Delta are known among fishermen for big wels catfish – but a length of 8.8 feet astonished even Ferrari, who is an expert fisherman.
The wels catfish is a fresh and salt water fish native to central, southern, and eastern Europe. As can be seen in the picture, it is scaleless with a broad, flat head and wide mouth. The wels catfish is the second-largest freshwater fish found in the Po region. The largest fish is the beluga sturgeon which can reportedly weigh more than 3,000 pounds.
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When my dad was a young man there was reports of giant catfish in the Cumberland River of Kentucky. I believe so.
Must be a nuclear retro-fit.
Good eye! :-)
A 280 lb catfish is still a big fish.
LOL
Must have swum near Fukashima.
Where are you from? Yankee!
This is why Oklahoma is the best state.
North Carolina, born and raised. Wild catfish do taste like mud. God only knows what they’ve eaten.
A catfish that size must taste like mud.
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.
Okay, so riddle me this:
Q
What keeps Texas from falling into the Gulf of Mexico?
A
Oklahoma sucks
(((shudder and ducking)))
LOL!!
I used to eat carp caught in the Arkansas river at Tulsa. Lots of bones was the only drawback.
Can’t say I’ve ever eaten carp.
Photoshopped. And a fish that size would weigh closer to 1000 lbs, not 280.
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.
Worthy of a Knights of Columbus’ Friday fish fry.
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