Posted on 06/29/2005 1:40:15 PM PDT by evets
Their catfish are bigger than our catfish (MS) ping!
That said, you think I could land that sucker on a fly rod???
Bristlecone Pines (oldest trees) grow on a series of ridges beginning with the White Inyo range in California. Since the "Methuselah" tree (record holder at ~4,500 years) is in the California preserve it apparently stood to reason to one of the Forest Service rocket scientists that he could go to the next ridge in Nevada and cut one down for research without running a core into it to check. The one he cut beat the record holder by about 350 years...
I have pulled 50-60lbs catfish (about 4 foot long; all head) out of cattle tanks smalled than backyard swimming pools.
I typically have put them back --- they taste muddy.
Occassionally, I will keep them alive in very clean fresh water for a while (about a week) to remove the mud taste -- but mainly to put the head on the barbed-wire fence.
Don't ask me why West Texans put catfish heads on our fences, though. It's just something we do.
I love catfish! YUMMY! :D
Woo-Hoo!! I'll bring the beer!!
Bet they don't taste as good. ;o)
Those things are freaking awesome; saw a documentary on "extreme fishing" where these guys went fly fishing for them. While they were out there beating the water, a couple of Mongolian guys rode up, then started pointing and laughing at them. They rode off..few minutes later they heard a gunshot. Then the mongolian guys showed up again with a dead headless prairie dog on a gigantic hook tied to line wrapped around a tin can. They tossed the prairie dog in and caught one of the gigantic trout (I forget what the mongolian name is) a few minutes later.
Yeah, those things troll for food on the ground right? I can just imagine the crap they eat, they look like the sucker fish I put in my aquarium to keep the tank clean.
I thought they said the Hogzilla photo was real, but the story they told about it being 12ft long was a lie. and if you measure the hog in the photo as compared to the man its like 10ft or something. It was a big hog just not as big as they said. But the picture was real.
It was caught on a 30lb test line, no doubt..<P.
BTW, aren't catfish bottom feeders..scavengers...what the heck could it eat..they're not that fast, right?
I made the mistake when young of holding a 3 lb. channel cat the wrong way, & he stuck me with a barbel. That got my attention.
"Yeah, those things troll for food on the ground right?"
I have never seen one do so, but we have coyotes, so I doubt they do it much.
They do live in unbelievably shallow/dry waters --- burrowing down in the mud, hibernating, and coming out when the tanks are full.
Typically, our tanks stay full or at least have some water(Colorado and Concho Rivers).
I believe they can eat cattle droppings, moss, other fish, grasshopers, locusts, you name it.
" I made the mistake when young of holding a 3 lb. channel cat the wrong way, & he stuck me with a barbel. That got my attention."
As did I. They have teeth, too. Or something that is close enough to teeth not to matter.
Whoa. Filet that!
For variety, try fresh-cut raw herring. They love it.
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