8ball Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 FISH STORY FROM WICHITA EAGLE NEWSPAPER Read before viewing pictures! This strange-but-true story was in The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. It took place in a housing development around 119th St. South and Maple. Anyhow... A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange on the development's pond and went to investigate. He found a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became lodged in it's mouth. The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive but was unable to do so because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. The resident tried numerous times to get the ball out of the fish's mouth but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the catfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Bolt Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Holy crap! Thats cool. Basketball lures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsunrise Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Kinda reminds me of some of the guys on the "Dream Team". Darn ball hogs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasas Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 wow... interesting... "Because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns and the ones we don't know we don't know." Donald Rumsfeld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Coleman Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 I always knew a pink basketball would be killer catfish bait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJLately Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Hmmm, . . . . maybe there should be an episode of 'Fear Factor' where the contestant paints his butt red, then goes skinny dipping in Wichita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrylZ Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 I've never seen fear in a fish's eye until those pictures... Interesting story... Facin' East... DarrylZ Secretary, Shark River Surf Anglers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charleston Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Gives new meaning to "catch and release" Great story I am old but I'm slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander1 Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Pete, I think ya' been retired too long already, these are the kinds of things Sudsy stays up all night finding. It was interesting though!!! "Thats as big as a fish that size gets" - Russ WilsonRIP JM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OBX Bound Posted August 25, 2004 Report Share Posted August 25, 2004 Thats funny. Glad the fish lived another day. I guess that proves that Catfish will eat anything...... Great pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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