This Is One Seriously Big Catfish

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This Is One Seriously Big Wels Catfish

Popular Science
Lydia Ramsey 2 hrs ago

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Fishermen are known for their tall tales of big catches. Turns out, this one has a lot of truth to it: Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught this monstrous 280-pound catfish on the Po River.

Catfishes range in size from a few inches to a few feet. The one Ferrari caught is reportedly a wels catfish, which can get up to 15 feet long, making this 8.75-foot long catfish barely above average. We're seeing reports that the biggest wels could be anywhere from more than 300 pounds up to 660.

Still, it's not every week you see such big creatures or hear a cool fish tale. CNN reports that (after a flurry of photos to prove it was real) Ferrari released the fish back into the water. The wels catfish can live for decades, though, so maybe we'll see the same one resurface at a record-breaking size.

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[oknow]

Bet he wasn't noodlin when he caught that thing.

 

[Stomper]

He would have been if he was from Texas!

 

[spectra]

I have seen those guys noodling and no way are they going to stick there arm into a hole big enough for that thing to hide in Heck they would fall into it.....That thing is huge....

 

[FZRider]

A 15 foot 660# catfish?!? That would be one hell of a sight!

 

[U201491]

Bet he wasn't noodlin when he caught that thing.

Uhhhhhh with his body ???
That thing could swallow a man.......................................... DAMN !

 

[oknow]

He would have been if he was from Texas!

And the story would have read

"Man eaten by catfish as a snack."

 

[Mikej]

Ehh....Bet it tastes like mud.

 

[Stomper]

And the story would have read

"Man eaten by catfish as a snack."

And the follow up story three days latter would have been,

"Texas man eats his way out of giant catfish after three days in the fish's belly! Coincidently, The man's name was Jonah."