Posted on 08/24/2002 11:07:42 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
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Anybody eat fish out of the Conowingo? Isn't that the cooling pool for Peachbottom Nuclear?
Also do you guys have any links or anything to this Catfish the size of cars thing that gives proof of catfish the size of Cars. Also you guys probably want to know where my Grandpa found out about a 15 foot sturgeon. He told me he read it in the news paper. Also I guess it makes a lot of sense that these Catfish are in these dams and all the food jsut flows down to them. I bet you all thsoe big Catfish do is eat like none stop their whole life. I know asain and african Cats have been said to grow to 600-800 pounds but I never herd about american cat's growing as big as trucks or having fins 5-6 feet long. I was thinking Mabey the fish there seeing are not from america and got in are waters on a mistake or mabey we just aren't seeing any Catfish and there just huge Aligator Gar or mabey eel or even sturgoen. These stories puzzle me. Some I have a really hard time believing but others I don't.
Or a water moccasin or 10.
Sulfur.
Posting from Granbury, TX...
My husband's cousin was out fishing one day in the Ohio River about an hour down from Cincy near the DP&L powerstation and a barge came by and churned up the water. They looked down at what they thought was a log about the length of their boat drifting by when it suddenly moved and dove under the water. They got out of there immediately.
I have always heard tales of catfish as big as VW bugs too. I wish they'd catch one once.
The sturgeon caught in Iran and Russia for caviar get even bigger at times from what I've read.
A 15 footer isn't hard to believe at all.
Welcome to FR. :)
The next day we gathered at the site of the original escapade and proceeded to bury the remaining evidence on a promontory just overlooking the rivers and took careful calculations of its important geological features so that in a few weeks or so when the "heat" was off we might go back and replace the contraband in the recess of the shack where we found it.
Alas, our reckoning proved ever faulty and, try as we might, not a single one of us could ever find the remaining 18 sticks of dynamite which has long since deteriorated to a rather rudimentary form of nitroglycerin.
I fully expect to read someday of a massive rockslide; such is the folly of youth.
IIRC,none of our American catfish are related to Old World catfish but they all have the "catfish" looks.
I'm proud to call Okies my neighbors. I'm here on the Texas prairie almost within spittin distance from the Red.
Big fish Pa. ping
There used to be an exhibit in the Tennesse State Museum of a sixteen foot Alligator Gar. The thing was caught in the Cumberland river in Downtown Nashville below the outfall of a meat packing plant. The bill on the damned thing was five feet long and full of long teeth. I used to bow hunt for carp in the Tennesse river and one day shot what I thought was a carp. WRONG! It was a three foot Garfish and the nasty critter took off after me (I was wading in the shallows). I threw the bow down and was walking on the water I swear. Man that fish was pissed!
Let my stepfather fish there ------ I LOVE grilled catfish........
Bookmarking this thread of great fish stories.
Wow I never knew sturgeon could get that big. 20 feet is HUGE for a fresh water fish and possibly the biggest fresh water fish ever. Mabey what people are seeing in these rivers are not Catfish but huge Sturgeon. There's a lot of Sturgeon now days. My uncle hooked up to about a five footer by a mistake. There's got to be some huge fish in that dam. Oh also just cause we are talking about large fish the DNR pnce shocked the water in 1975 and had a 110 pound muskie that was over 6 feet in the net and they let it go! The world record muskie caught on a rod was only like 70 something pounds. Now thats scary cause muskie are very aggresive preadators and MUCH smaller ones have been known to attack humans or give them teeth marks all the time. Think about one thats over 6 feet. Now that muskie would kill you lol. Also like I said I have seen Catfish on tv like 6-7 feet long but thats still not as long as a car or bus. Also can any one tell me howl ong sturgeon live? Also man would it be freaky to have a 10-20 foot Sturgeon on a really big rod like an ugly stik and huge test line. It would probably yank the rod out of your hands.
Wow no way. A 16 FOOT ALIGATOR GAR. Wow! Thats big. I used to catch Gar in the wisconson river. But I never caught one over 3 feet. And I find it funny that the Gar went after you lol. I mean there the nasty predator fish and all but I did not know they were that aggresive. Also I wonder how Gar Taste....hhhmmmm....gives me an idea.
My family was wading in the shallows of the Susquehanna below Safe Harbor Dam back around 1983, when my kid brother steped in a shallow pool and was startled out of his wits by a 3 ft. long catfish. Never saw the boy jump so high in my life as when he stepped on that thing!
I hope your brother didn't actually step ON that catfish (or worse, on that spine at the top of its back). That thing is sharp as a needle and hurts like a sonuvagun when it penetrates your skin.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/01/cambodia.catfish.ap/
650 lbs and up to 10 feet long!
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