Posted on 10/09/2008 9:22:50 AM PDT by Justice Department
A fearsome fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses, scientists fear.
They reckon that a huge type of catfish, called a goonch, may have developed a taste for flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after funerals.
Locals have believed for years that a mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on from scavenging to snatching unwary bathers who venture into the Great Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal border.
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Noodling
noodling
I always thought those people who did wit were insane..always run the risk of finding a big snapping turtle..take your finger off like a bandsaw..
Is it just me or does the thought of swimming in a river where they dump BODIES gross you out?! Nevermind the man eating fish! Yuck! Double yuck!
Commonly it is called noodling.
In Nebraska they called it Stump fishing. I’m not sure if it is called that because they stick their hands into submerged tree stumps or because they fear their arms becoming nothing but stumps...
Well, the paddlefish used to be plentiful in the Mississippi in MO, and they can be 7 feet long. See this wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_paddlefish
Regarding catfish, here is a nice article, excerpt below:
http://www.missourigameandfish.com/fishing/catfish-fishing/mo_aa083204a/
“The largest of our Big Three species is the blue catfish. Back when the big rivers ran wild, blue cats were probably even bigger. Historical records and anecdotal evidence appear to support such a claim. In his book, Steamboating: 65 Years on Missouri’s Rivers, a boat pilot named William Heckman wrote of a giant 315-pound blue catfish that was reportedly taken from the Missouri River in Gasconade County just after the Civil War. State archives contain an 1879 shipping invoice for a 150-pound blue catfish purchased at a St. Louis fish market. The sender was one Dr. J.G.W. Steedman, then chairman of the Missouri Fish Commission; the recipient was the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, now part of the Smithsonian Institute”
I have heard the same from recovery divers in the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in SE Ohio.
Don't know.
I have heard these stories from divers in Lakes Whitney and Travis, nobody can produce fish or pictures. I say Baloney!
Now, I have seen with my own eyes 200+ lb. Gar way over 6 ft.
Noodling in others....
Kind of sinister looking beady eyes...and a long thin mustache.
Ha!
A fish THAT big would require the 55-gallon UberGulp and an entire cartload of Hushpuppies from the nearest Costco or Sam’s Warehouse. . . .
But I read somewhere of divers being so spooked the wouldn't go down and check the dams anymore.
It seems that the silt build up at the base of the dam was a great place for these giant cats. They starting nibbling at the divers and they freaked, estimates of 300 to a 500 lb-ers....
Anyone know what river and what dams this was occurring at?
Er...noodling?
The lake record at lake Texoma...is around 122 lbs.
I've seen flat heads in the low hundreds....
That fish looks like the inspiration for a star wars character.
Mr Limpett is hungry?
Outside the West Texas city of Sweetwater, there’s a lake where several scuba divers have reported seeing a monster catfish that hangs down by the dam.
Also, here’s a website with a picture of a really big one:
http://www.stripers247.com/phpBB2/showthread.php?t=7714
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