In case you don’t remember the saga of Bubba, the 22 lb lobster, you can read about it here. I am a sucker for hard luck fish stories, apparently. Here’s another where my sympathy goes to the fish:
“Pruitt, casting his line in the Mississippi River on Sunday, hauled up a 58-inch long, 44-inch around blue catfish that weighed a whopping 124-pounds. To get a sense of just how big that is, the state record holder was a mere 85 pounds and the world record holder tipped the scales at 121 pounds, eight ounces.”
They have a picture. It reminds me of the fake picture of a huge house cat (thanks to snopes.com, the myth busters of the Internet). It looks the same, really.
Assuming this story is for real, I hope they put that fish back into the river. Why should that poor huge catfish suffer? It just wants to roam around and eat. It probably can’t procreate, unless it finds a “host” that is compatible.
Poor feller. It just wants to be free.
Though, the more I look at the picture, the more I suspect it’s a fake.
How much flour, cayenne pepper, and peanut oil would you need for a catfish of that size? It looks delicious!
Awful awful awful. You should be ASHAMED of yourself.
Poor fish. Never wanted to hurt nobody.
Neither did the chicken I ate for dinner last night, but it was sure tasty. And I ate it without the slightest hint of shame.
I’ll post my recipe later on.
According to the Today show this morning, the fish died.
Jill’s right:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/big_fish;_ylt=Ap_J2dU_uwN.CXicIoxP6fkDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – A record 124-pound blue catfish caught earlier this week by an Illinois man fishing in the Mississippi River died on its way to the Cabela’s Outfitter store where it was to go on display….
“We’re baffled by this,” Fred Cronin, a fisheries biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, told The Kansas City Star. “We took a lot of precautions to see that the fish was comfortable.
“But we’re talking about a fish that was very old, very heavy,” he said. “The stress of being transported like that could have been too much.”
[Rumor has it that Long John Silver's restaurant plans to offer the catfish on its new summer menu.]
I think if you found a 100 lb chicken in the wild, you wouldn’t eat it. You’d want to help it run free.
Poor fish. It died just like Bubba the 22 lb lobster did, during transport. In fact, I think the biologist was suprised then, too…
Depends on how juicy the thing looked.
That’s just how the 100 lb chicken would look at you. She’d salivate, smack her lips and think… “yum. I bet he’d go good with some FRENCH FRIES.”
Really? Do chickens eat french fries?
Even so, I’m pretty confident that if I got the first hit in, I could take a 100 lb. chicken.
You and me, big boy. Let’s go. I’ll bring the french fries. You bring the ketchup.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time.