Last night I was watchign a movie. It was called grumpier old men or somethign like that. I wasn’t really paying that much attention, I ahd the sound switched off and was listening to Bowie’s greatest hits. The only reason I was awake was because my girlfirend had only just left didn’t feel much like sleeping. Anyway to the point (just in my defence I know i often take time to reach the poitn but I feel the backgroudn often help set the scen and you can see how I the questions arise in my mind and I don’t appear as if I belong in Bedlam), part fo the film was about a giant catfish. I’ve noticed quite a few story lines about giant catfish in american shows so i want to know what the big deal with giant catfish is.
Are they just an urband legend or do you really get big catfish, if you do i can see the apeal but if not then how did they come about?
And whilst we are on that subject what’s the deal with the Alligators underneath New York, or the bear under Moscow, or the Boar under London? Where does our fascination of monsters under our cities come from?
And to bring in the string why does string start to swing round when you hold it over your palm?
Lib’s link shows a Mekong (Chinese) giant catfish… this page shows one caught in a lake in Texas. This page shows a better picture of the Asian giant catfish.
There used to be even larger catfish in European lakes and rivers but they are both extremely rare and a good deal smaller these days. There’s one in a lake in Germany which is famous for allegedly eating a dog; it may or may not be the fish pictured here which washed up on the shore of the lake a year ago.
You’re probably referring to the ideomotor effect. It’s the same effect that’s believed to occur in dowsing and the use of a Ouija board. It boils down to unconcious muscle movement.
I live in Ohio and the biggest catfish that I have ever heard of being caught around here was like 72 pounds. I don’t know what you consider giant but thats a pretty big one.
The big deal is because giant catfish exist. While a seven pound bass is a big bass, catfish routinely grow to over forty pounds, with record fish in the 120-140 pound range. A friend gets stringers of forty-plus pound catfish out of… (you didn’t think I was going to reveal that, did you?)
Few freshwater fish get bigger than a catfish, with a few exceptions like sturgeon and alligator gar.
Whoops. The picture of the Texas catfish listed above is a possible hoax. Here is the catfish that was really caught in Texas. Much smaller, but still a good 150 pounds.
A lot of the dive and tackle stores around Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island have at least one guy who claims to have seen giant saltwater catfish in and around the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (Indian River). Nobody’s ever caught or photographed one, though.
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And whilst we are on that subject what’s the deal with the Alligators underneath New York, or the bear under Moscow, or the Boar under London? Where does our fascination of monsters under our cities come from?
The bear and the boar are bullshit.
…now, the alligator story SOUNDS feasible, but it too is bullshit. Something about returning visitors from Florida, who purchased baby alligators at a road side stand…got nervous when the 'gator started to get too big…and was flushed down the toilet…where it grew to astronomical proportions, feeding on the rat population in the sewers beneath New York City.
