pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth!!

The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. The resident tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.

You probably wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the following pictures...

 

lol!... those bastards will eat just about anything.

 

lol
thats crazy

 

that's one huge catfish

 

That's for sure.

There were Channel Cats where I grew up in Michigan....the first one of those I ever saw when I was 6 years old was about a foot longer than I was tall. Left an indelible memory.

 

Me and my dad used to go fishing in SC I remember seeing pics of 150+ pnd catfish caught at this lake the lake was over 900 ft deep, I think it was ocachobee

 

Good thing he did not swallow it.

 

World record blue cat (bigger than chanels) was just broke this year. 130 something I beleive.