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I live about 40 mins from the Cabels where that cat will be kept. There are already 2 blues in there that look like they weight 90-110. I'd donate as well rather than let it go or kill it. I sure wouldn't eat the meat of a catfish that's probably older than I am and has eaten river trash all it's life. Put it behind glass and let people enjoy looking at it. |
I think it's small compared to some other ones that are out there in America too. One of the guys on my old mountain bike team was a professional diver and traveled the country clearing debris from dams and he would always tell us about seeing catfish there were bigger than he was! Scary stuff. |
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When I was a child growing up in the 40's & 50's on the Arkansas River large catifish were caught often. Usually took over 200 lb. to make the local paper. Fishermen would not eat those; "They were to sell!!" 200 & 300 ld. gar were killed often. Don't see the big ones like 400 lb. any more. |
Same here when I was groing up in MO. My parents and grandparents were commercial fisherman. Quite often we would catch 150lb catfish, usually Blue's or Flathead. None of them made much of a news story. I still have pictures of me and my sister posing with my Granpa holding them up when we were about 5 or 6 years old. The fish were longer than we were tall. |
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| I believe this fish was caught on the northern edge of what used to be the Granite City Army Depot/ Charles Melvin Price Suppport Center. I was staioned there in the mid 90's. I am surprised that an animal could live that long in those waters. The pollution is really bad. Maybe that contributed to his size. I am not an environmentalist but we (my family and I ) would no even drink the tap water on the post. |