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Old 08-28-2007, 07:21 PM
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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.




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Old 08-28-2007, 07:31 PM
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WOW

I .. had no idea Saskatchewan had catfish? I always thought they were a southern-States sort of fish ...
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:56 PM
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Wow, but so nice of them to make the effort to save the fish.
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Old 08-28-2007, 11:17 PM
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I believe a lot of Americans travel to the Winnipeg area to fish for catfish, Tony.

Great pics Brian.
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Old 08-29-2007, 12:47 AM
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Great pics/story, I'm happy the fish was saved
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:51 AM
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U should see the SEA WATER Rabbits out here
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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.


Super thanks for sharing your story.


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