100-pound catfish invade Susquehanna

http://www.post-gazette.com/ ^ | Friday, July 26, 2002 | By The Associated Press

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

LANCASTER -- One-hundred pound flathead catfish could eventually take over the Susquehanna River and disrupt its ecosystem, according to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.

Last week, commission officials confirmed that the species recently entered the Susquehanna River. And officials are worried the predatory fish, which can reach more than 100 pounds, could cause problems for other species.

[Bluntpoint]

Flatheads prefer live fish. They eat bass, bluegill and other catfish.

They taste great.

[Bluntpoint]

Trolling for catfish.

Ping all the other troll hunters and ridicule him.

[dc27]

I saw those guys on TV. Quite interesting

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Wow next thing you know the Sturgeons gonna eat a human lol. Any way check out what I found. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=19036

[Bluntpoint]

Flatheads love basketballs!

http://www.pondboss.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=20;t=001024

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Lol I know,I find that story to be very funny lol. Also On the link I gave you Fish can get alot bigger then some say.

[Havoc]

lol, live bait.. depends on what size you want. I was down on "kentucky lake" years ago when I saw first hand what fishing for Big fish was all about. They used 1/4 inch nylon rope on a hand cranked winch with a 3 pronged anchor for a hook. The bait - 1 whole 6 pound chicken. The Bobber was a full sized styrofoam cooler. The fish, well, there's plenty of pictures of them in the local restaraunts up and down the river, 6 feet on up. Now *that* is fishin for cat lol.

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Here's a link to some amazon Cat's. http://www.bassmex.com/pages/amazon_catfish.htm

[KingNo155]

Plus catfish are son-a-bitches they live forever plus they can skip along dry land for quite a long distance without taking air like other fishes. Same with eel's.

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Dude you should see some of them asain Cat's. Ive seen pictures of noodlers with Cat's like 10 feet. How do they pull thsoe things out of the water. They can grow up to like 15 feet on top of that. People die every year noddling for those Cat's.

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Nope. Flat Head Catfish almsot always eat nothing but live bait.

[txhurl]

We have cats at Mansfield Dam here on Lake Travis that are 12 ft long, according to our divers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Meow.

[maro]

Edible?

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Is this lake in America. Also I would love it more than anything to go to one of those places on the Amazon river like many other popular people do and catch three foot bass and try to catch a 16 foot CatFish lol even though he would pull me in the water. Even if three men were holding an ugly stik with 500 pound test line the rod would break lol.

[OverPowered Godzilla]

Lol.

[txhurl]

mentions a 315 pound blue caught in the Missouri

315 lbs.

My God.

[eastforker]

I just wandered across this article, why wasn't I pinged?Please put me on all fish articles ping list,315 lb blue eah, now thats what I call a fish.

[Cap'n Crunch]

This was a hoot, watch these old boys catch some catfish...takes a minute to load and they don't catch the first one until about 8 minutes into the video.

http://www.fishwithus.net/includes/noodling.html

[piasa]

At a lock and dam near St. Louis the divers refused to go in unless provided with a sharkprod.