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3Vs

01-07-2005, 02:19 PM

:oFISHERMEN in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record – a 293-kg giant the size of a grizzly bear – and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society have said.

The giant catfish, believed to be the largest freshwater fish ever found, was caught along the Mekong River, home to more species of massive fish than any river on Earth. :o

Big_unit

01-07-2005, 05:12 PM

Thats a big fish. Dont reckon I would want any fillets of it, not with the hygiene standards those guys have.

Cheers
James

caloundra

01-07-2005, 05:43 PM

what the!! #:o

rando

01-07-2005, 06:15 PM

you'd need a big filleting knife ;D

Zeeke

01-07-2005, 06:20 PM

hrmm, looks a bit small.. im calling for a measure!

Tim ;D

Jim_Tait

01-07-2005, 09:35 PM

Too bad its an endangered species on its last legs :(

PinHead

01-07-2005, 11:26 PM

you'd need a big filleting knife ;D

Knife? You would need a chain saw for that

theoldlegend

01-07-2005, 11:51 PM

Yeah - there's a photo of it in today's Courier Mail. Wouldn't be too keen on eating anything from around there.

DICER

02-07-2005, 02:50 AM

I'll have what they're using for bait!

bidkev

02-07-2005, 05:17 AM

Shame they can't read English. If they'd have looked closer they'd've seeen a tag saying, "The Verminator was here, please return fish to water for stocking purposes" :-)

Fishinmishin

02-07-2005, 05:44 AM

I hear they caught it on 4ld line, killed it, then one bloke jumped off the tinnie and onto it's back and paddled it to shore ::) ;D.

It shouldn't have been killed >:( :(.
Cheers, Jay

logan_whiting

02-07-2005, 02:06 PM

what ever

joeT

02-07-2005, 07:10 PM

Thats one big freshwater fish. At least it was eaten and not wasted.

Bundaberg_Bandit

03-07-2005, 03:15 PM

I think he is holding that out to camera with arms outstretched behind the fish :) :) :), the same way you can get a whiting to look a metre long

cheers

BB

saphire

03-07-2005, 05:24 PM

Wow almost as big as General Sherman. He was the giant catfish from the Simpsons episode where Homer could only think of going fishing instead of spending the weekend with his wife.
I wonder if there are any more that size in the river.
Also it would be interesting to know how old that huge fish was. He must have been avoiding fishermen for years.
Cheers,
saphire [smiley=balloon3.gif].