One guy told me that he thought he was looking at ancient oak logs or hewed lumber that you'll find near dams where mills were located. He was getting ready to check behind what he thought was a three foot diameter log for a body. When the timber moved, he was all of the sudden looking at the face of a catfish.
He said has no idea how long the fish was, but he said it was easily over ten feet long. He never dove in the rivers for a body again.
This was in the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio.
These CatFish stories are incredible.
Wouldn't it be fun to Catfish in the Amazon where Cat's can weigh 700 pounds.