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Mrs. 4-B
04-13-2005, 05:14 PM
This was a 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...
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http://www2.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/2379cat_3.jpg
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MsDrmr
04-13-2005, 05:22 PM
Most of the facts are true, however, I saw that article on "Urban Legends" quite a while age. The fish did have a ball stuck in him mouth which is interesting, but it did not happen recently....Stupid fish, can't get 'em to bite a hook but the stupid thing will swallow a ball :confused: :D

Ziggy
04-13-2005, 05:27 PM
What a waste of a perfectly good ball :D
Thats one UGLY fish :supp: bet he felt like I do after having gone to the dentist, sore jaw. :wink:

Midwest_Miss69
04-13-2005, 06:52 PM
That's a hilarious story! And Wichita is my hometown too. All my relatives live there still and while I'm skeptical I can find out if that story is true or not as my parents subscribe to the Wichita Eagle ;)

Beer Factor
04-13-2005, 07:50 PM
I would have took that ball out of his mouth and put a hook in it and fought him for a while before i released him. :eat:

MudPumper
04-13-2005, 08:28 PM
Pretty sure I saw those pictures close to a year ago. :eat:

SBullet
04-13-2005, 08:34 PM
That's pretty funny!! :D

Krazy K
04-13-2005, 08:37 PM
I would have taken the ball out of it's mouth and then netted it and had me some mighty tasty fish for quite some time!!!

19cobaltcd
04-14-2005, 08:35 AM
Wichita is my hometown and I read the paper everyday. That was in the paper late last summer if I remember right. It was just a small pond in a sub-division around here.

Midwest_Miss69
04-14-2005, 06:37 PM
This story happened a year ago and it is on the Urban Legend website as the truth. Here's the link...........
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp