Fish Story

[Pescador]

A guy who lives at Round Lake (50 miles south of Yorkton SK) saw a ball bouncing kind of strangely in the lake and went to investigate.
It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a basketball which had become stuck in it's mouth.
The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive as the ball would always bring back up to the surface.
The guy tried numerous times to get the ball out but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Pescador58/Misc/catfish1.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Pescador58/Misc/catfish2.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Pescador58/Misc/catfish3.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Pescador58/Misc/catfish4.jpg

[Delphinus]

WOW

I .. had no idea Saskatchewan had catfish? I always thought they were a southern-States sort of fish ...

[fishoholic]

Crazy!

[michika]

Wow, but so nice of them to make the effort to save the fish.

[Doug]

I believe a lot of Americans travel to the Winnipeg area to fish for catfish, Tony.

Great pics Brian.

[MikeP]

Great pics/story, I'm happy the fish was saved :)

[Skimmerking]

U should see the SEA WATER Rabbits out here :lol: :lol: :lol:

[bulletsworld]

WOW, now that a big catfish! Thanks for sharing. Great pictures! Really tells the whole story. Awww..I'm a sucker for happy ending. It makes me sp happy to know a person thought it was important to save the fish. :mrgreen:


Super thanks for sharing your story.


:mrgreen:

[Zoaelite]

That specificly shows that we have a small problem with littering :\
Levi

[Delphinus]

Ok fresh on the heels of the great swallower fish thread (http://canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=36740 ) where Matt wondered if it may have been a hoax, I went and searched snopes.com.

Didn't find any instance of that one, but did find these exact photos of the catfish and the basketball: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp

... except that the photos are now attributed to some lake in Kansas, not Saskatchewan. The story is otherwise verbatim word for word. :lol:

[Chin_Lee]

That fish would have ended up on my dinner plate. Maybe I should try that with salmon and ping pong balls

[Matt]

I stopped once on a trip to Vancouver, near Hope (Othello Tunnel area), and skip-hopped out across some large boulders to a nice flat one in the middle of the river. I was tired, and sat there for a while, until I noticed some large shadows in the water across the way. I scooped up some pebbles, and tossed them one-by-one, and almost every one got a nice big steelhead to hit it. There were several of them there, and you could see them playing catch with me just below the surface. So, next time you're fishing trout, try pebbles.

(As a side note, do not jump DOWN from boulder to boulder across a fast-running mountain stream... jumping back UP is much harder, wetter, and colder.)