TMAC
Gold Member
I didn't feel like typing "Large Mouth" Bass again so I just abbreviated it with LM. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Large Catfish plays Ball......
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anthonyk
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hate to burst your bubble, but this shot is a hoax. The others with the catfish that had the ball in his mouth are probably real, but this one is a fake. I got the scoop from a site called
truth or fiction, and here's a copy of the explanation:
Record Catfish Pulled From a Texas Lake-Truth! & Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor
A picture of a giant catfish being held by two men.
The text says it is a 140-pound giant caught in Lake Texoma and is a Texas state record.
The Truth
The truth is that there is a giant blue catfish that was pulled from Lake Texoma, but it's not the one in the picture.
The real fish was 121 1/2 pounds and was pulled out of the lake on January 16, 2004 by 27-year-old Cody Mullennix.
According to ESPN he was fishing on the Texas side of the reservoir, which is on the Texas-Oklahoma line, when he pulled out the 60-inch beauty.
The fish set several world records as well as some Texas state records.
Earlier in the day he caught a 56-pound blue catfish but released it.
Lucky for the fish, Mullennix is a catch-and-release fan.
He kept the hardy fish alive and donated it to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas, where it is swimming happily in a huge aquarium.
Authorities there say they intend to return it someday to the waters of Lake Texoma.
What about the picture that is circulating with the eRumor?
It is from a foreign catfish angler's website where a man named Lucas Van Der Geest claims to have caught a 6 1/2 foot catfish weighing 187.4 pounds.
CLICK HERE for that page.
It was allegedly caught in the Po River in Italy, although we've not found any substantiation for that.
This picture has also circulated with claims that the fish was caught in Lake Norman in North Carolina, Lake Leon in Texas, and in Georgia.
A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
Subject: Fw: TX State Record Catfish
New state record catfish. 140 lbs. caught in Lake Texoma. This is
one of those legandary fish that scuba divers say they see at the bottom of
dams that are big enough to eat a person. They say that catfish this big
are well over 100 years old.
sorry! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Anthony
truth or fiction, and here's a copy of the explanation:
Record Catfish Pulled From a Texas Lake-Truth! & Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor
A picture of a giant catfish being held by two men.
The text says it is a 140-pound giant caught in Lake Texoma and is a Texas state record.
The Truth
The truth is that there is a giant blue catfish that was pulled from Lake Texoma, but it's not the one in the picture.
The real fish was 121 1/2 pounds and was pulled out of the lake on January 16, 2004 by 27-year-old Cody Mullennix.
According to ESPN he was fishing on the Texas side of the reservoir, which is on the Texas-Oklahoma line, when he pulled out the 60-inch beauty.
The fish set several world records as well as some Texas state records.
Earlier in the day he caught a 56-pound blue catfish but released it.
Lucky for the fish, Mullennix is a catch-and-release fan.
He kept the hardy fish alive and donated it to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas, where it is swimming happily in a huge aquarium.
Authorities there say they intend to return it someday to the waters of Lake Texoma.
What about the picture that is circulating with the eRumor?
It is from a foreign catfish angler's website where a man named Lucas Van Der Geest claims to have caught a 6 1/2 foot catfish weighing 187.4 pounds.
CLICK HERE for that page.
It was allegedly caught in the Po River in Italy, although we've not found any substantiation for that.
This picture has also circulated with claims that the fish was caught in Lake Norman in North Carolina, Lake Leon in Texas, and in Georgia.
A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
Subject: Fw: TX State Record Catfish
New state record catfish. 140 lbs. caught in Lake Texoma. This is
one of those legandary fish that scuba divers say they see at the bottom of
dams that are big enough to eat a person. They say that catfish this big
are well over 100 years old.
sorry! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Anthony
anthonyk
Gold Member
here's a link to the site. It's very useful for seperating the truth from a lot of the email hoaxes out there.
www.truthorfiction.com
Anthony
www.truthorfiction.com
Anthony
riptides
Super Member
If it is in your backyard... how big are you?
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fishman
Veteran Member
Yes, the picture Lazy posted is commonly attributed to the blue catfish caught in Texoma, but it is in fact a Wels catfish from Europe. Based on other reports and websites, I think the actual picture is genuine, but it definitely is not the catfish from Texoma. Wrong species. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
It will be interesting to see if the flathead/basketball pictures are in fact, set up. It would be easy enough to put a deflated basketball in its mouth, pump it up, then photograph it. We may never know. Still darned interesting.
It will be interesting to see if the flathead/basketball pictures are in fact, set up. It would be easy enough to put a deflated basketball in its mouth, pump it up, then photograph it. We may never know. Still darned interesting.
bgott
Veteran Member
My take on the subject is that if you can catch a catfish as big as either of these you are legally and morally allowed to tell however big a lie as you wish about the acquisition of the thing.
Actually this is true. As seen here http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp
I also found the one another tbn member was talking about
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catfish.asp
but was not the right one. So there are catfish that big
http://www.snopes.com/photos/noodling.asp
I also found the one another tbn member was talking about
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catfish.asp
but was not the right one. So there are catfish that big
http://www.snopes.com/photos/noodling.asp
8NTX
Gold Member
And they're keeping him in my back yard. At the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens (Lake Athens, where our weekend home is). We went and saw him the other day. Splash is a big fish.
