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Title: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: DREDIOCK on July 21, 2010, 08:28:21 PM
Fisherman lands a world record  130-pound catfish

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/fisherman-makes-world-record-catch-20984569
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: MiloMorai on July 21, 2010, 09:46:22 PM
How can it be a world record?

The one in the video is a baby compared to this one.

(http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2004/02/040226072400.jpg)

The giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), which grows to 10 feet long and 650 pounds, is a migratory species in the rivers of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. It has been a mainstay for local fishers for centuries.
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: maddafinga on July 21, 2010, 09:52:44 PM
World record for that species of catfish, not all catfish in general. 
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: Getback on July 21, 2010, 10:26:35 PM
Yeah Dred, that one of yours wasn't even of legal limit.
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: Masherbrum on July 21, 2010, 11:28:24 PM
Fisherman lands a world record  130-pound catfish

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/fisherman-makes-world-record-catch-20984569

Tried watching the video, but the narrator talks as if he's drunk.
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: Scherf on July 21, 2010, 11:36:34 PM
Perhaps the sponsor of that video will include "I like watching videos of catfish" as a 30th "axis of compatability" to match me to someone.







I live in fear of this happening.
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: oakranger on July 21, 2010, 11:41:11 PM
should have thrown that catfish back in the water.  Excellent gene pool. 
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: uptown on July 22, 2010, 05:40:37 AM
should have thrown that catfish back in the water.  Excellent gene pool. 
I read a essay in Missouri Outdoors that said fish of this size were quite common 100/150 years ago, but the constant fishing for them is not allowing them to get to this size anymore. The guy caught this on trot lines he set out the night before. Which IMO is not really fishing. He might as well of just used a net. But that's what they do along the river down there. :frown:
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: dedalos on July 22, 2010, 08:46:28 AM
How can it be a world record?

The one in the video is a baby compared to this one.

(http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2004/02/040226072400.jpg)

The giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas), which grows to 10 feet long and 650 pounds, is a migratory species in the rivers of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. It has been a mainstay for local fishers for centuries.

You know, world record (meaning in the US)  :rofl

I remember watching the world champion Chicago Bulls a lot a while back  :rofl
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: Tec on July 22, 2010, 09:57:48 AM
The guy caught this on trot lines he set out the night before.

Where did you get that from?  The video sure sounds like they got it on hook and line, and to be a WR for the IGFA or FWFHOF it has to be by hook and line.
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: fbWldcat on July 22, 2010, 11:06:33 AM
"Set the hook on 'im"

Sounds like Hook and Line to me. You don't set the hook with trot lines, the fish does that itself.
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: mbailey on July 22, 2010, 11:11:30 AM
Hey wildcat, i think that fish would solve your fish fry problem in August  :rofl
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: fbWldcat on July 22, 2010, 11:14:13 AM
Hey wildcat, i think that fish would solve your fish fry problem sometime in Autumn  :rofl

Now it is correct
Title: Re: Fisherman catches 130 lb Catfish
Post by: uptown on July 22, 2010, 02:21:11 PM
Where did you get that from?  The video sure sounds like they got it on hook and line, and to be a WR for the IGFA or FWFHOF it has to be by hook and line.
It was on the news here last night. The video does say that he set the hook, but I understood him saying he caught it on a trot line too.  :headscratch:



I just went back and looked at the news clip from last night and he caught the thing on rod and reel afterall  :rock