[sinanju]

I wonder how big they ran back in the Huck Finn days?

[OneVike]

I am sure that our grandparents and great great grandparents caught a lot of "world record"" fish of all kinds. Especially considering the Indians were too stupid to catch fish with anything but their hands or damning up the creaks.

[gulfcoast6]

REAL BIG?? When I lived in Greenville, MS we use to jug fish all the time on the Ms river, wanted to but nevers cauget one this big, he would make a whole week of supper’s, for the whole neighborhood..

[Joe 6-pack]

"I wonder how big they ran back in the Huck Finn days?"

Not sure about cats, but they pulled some pretty big gar out of the water in those days :-)