Gas Station Catfish -- YUMMY!!!!

[Cow Poke]

Y'all stop picking on mossy

I checked the calendar and it's my turn to pick on her so y'all will just have to wait your turn

Oh, that's RIGHT... you pick on her on days that end with "day"!

[Cerebrum123]

Y'all stop picking on mossy

I checked the calendar and it's my turn to pick on her so y'all will just have to wait your turn

I'm not picking on her! I am asking what qualifies as picking on her. There is a difference.

[rogue06]

But, I stepped on one accidentally when I was 12. My sister caught it and I thought it was dead and when I went near it it started flapping around me and I stepped on it. In my bare feet. Accidentally. And it had whiskers......

I am traumatized to this day.

A salmon, on the other hand, is a beautiful thing. So is an angelfish.

I don't think that catfish were around back when you were 12. Are you positive that it wasn't a trilobite of some sort or perhaps an Anomalocaris?

[rogue06]

Oh, that's RIGHT... you pick on her on days that end with "day"!

You agreed to the terms

[Cow Poke]

You agreed to the terms

Another of those, "OK, CP, if you breathe in the next 60 minutes, you agree to the terms......"

[rogue06]

Another of those, "OK, CP, if you breathe in the next 60 minutes, you agree to the terms......"

More like

rogue06: "If you want this last slice of delicious pre-war crispy bacon you first..."

CP: "Give me, give me, give me!"

rogue06: "You first have to agree to..."

CP: "Sure, sure. Now give me!"

rogue06: "But I haven't even explain the terms of the..."

CP: "GIVE ME! NOW!"

rogue06: "...deal"

CP: "Don't care. Give Me!"

rogue06: "Patience dear brother"¹

CP: "Now, now, now!"

rogue06: "You gotta agree that I get to pick on mossy on days that end with day."

CP: "Yeah, yeah. Whatever."

rogue06: "So its a deal?"

CP: "Anything! Just give me that bacon."

1. It is slightly possible that I just might have said "stinking nincompoopiehead" rather than "dear brother"

[mossrose]

I don't think that catfish were around back when you were 12. Are you positive that it wasn't a trilobite of some sort or perhaps an Anomalocaris?

I refuse to click on that link. And I am not sure it was a real catfish. We were on Vancouver Island, and the fish wasn't very big. My sister caught it from the pier. It had whiskers, and my Dad called it a catfish, and so that's what it was.

We had, for maybe 20 years, for my kids, a small aquarium. It only held a few fish, and eventually they all died, except for one....a red-tailed shark. It was a bottom feeder and had whiskers like a catfish. I hated Gordon (or Gordonette, as my daughter insisted), and didn't even like to look at it.

He lived for 15 years.

[mossrose]

She better not go in my "Catch of the Day" thread then.

I try not to.

[Jedidiah]

What about pictures of catfish I have caught? Or some of the videos?

Just fry them up, don't take pictures.

[Cerebrum123]

Just fry them up, don't take pictures.

We do catch and release. Why wouldn't I want a picture of my achievement?

[Cow Poke]

We do catch and release. Why wouldn't I want a picture of my achievement?

They don't fry up well, and taste like burned paper and plastic.

[Cerebrum123]

They don't fry up well, and taste like burned paper and plastic.

I didn't ask about frying pictures.

[Cow Poke]

I didn't ask about frying pictures.

oh


so, you're gonna... what, just look at them?

[Cerebrum123]

oh


so, you're gonna... what, just look at them?

I want a record of the biggest fish I've caught. I've already got some amazing pictures and videos here.

Mossy don't click on that link.

[rogue06]

The stuff of nightmares for mossy...





The largest catfish is known as Pangasianodon gigas, or the Mekong giant catfish is regarded as being the world's largest (entirely) freshwater fish and is said to be able to reach a size of 3 meters (9' 10") long and weigh up to 350 kg (770 lb). The largest confirmed Pangasianodon, caught was in Thailand in 2005, was 2.7 meters (8' 10") long and 293 kg (646 lb).

A picture of it published in National Geographic can be seen HERE (I'm not posting an actual picture but rather a link for mossy's sake).