Stand back, he bites: British fisherman grapples with ferocious 'giant piranha'

DailyMail UK ^ | 10/20/10 | Richard James

[Celtic Cross]

British angler Jeremy Wade looks understandably anxious as he grapples with this ferocious-looking 'giant piranha'. The 52-year-old caught the aptly-named goliath tigerfish during a fishing expedition up the Congo River in Africa. The brave fisherman was forced to hold the fish at arms-length for fear of being bitten by its razor-sharp teeth while posing with it for the camera.

[the invisib1e hand]

what is with all these weird fish lately?

[NautiNurse]

Killer Carrot

[Minn]

River Monsters is a great show.

[Minn]

River Monsters is a great show.

[bigheadfred]

I looked you up. This is what it said.

A cold, sadistic and passive-aggressive tyrant, NautiNurse has become the stereotype of the nurse as a battle axe. She has also become a popular metaphor for the corrupting influence of power and authority in the mental institution in which she drew that picture....

LOL

[This I Wonder32460]

Good Answer.

[Celtic Cross]

Have...FUN

(Mwahahahaha...)

[Celtic Cross]

Me neither. I was thinking that as I read the article.

[Celtic Cross]

Wanna' prove that?

Because i'm not trying it. ;)

[Grammy]

Hey girl, you can catch this one.... I’ll watch.

[HairOfTheDog]

The piranhas...
What about the goddamn piranhas?
They’re eating the guests, sir.

[GladesGuru]

Have you confused NautiNurse with Nurse Ratched?

[GonzoGOP]

You can jump in a pool infested with hundreds of piranhas, and you won’t suffer even a bite.

Actually on his show "River Monsters" Wade did just that. Then he dangled a peace of raw meat into the pool and the fish went into total frenzy. His theory was that the tales of Piranhas skeletonizing people (specifically related to a bus that crashed into the river) referred to bodies.

[camle]

a couple of points:
1) the guy’s shirt isn’t wet, would n’t it have gotten wet from the fish?
2) a fish that size would weigh plenty, he doesn’t look to be straining that much, does he?
3) he’s in knee deep water, a fish that size wouldn’t be able to navigate water that shallow, would he?

are we SURE this is real?

[Celtic Cross]

1)If you look by his sleeve his shirt looks a little wet. Not as wet as it should be, so the pics in the article are probably posed.

2)Its kinda' hard to tell if he's straining or not.

3)That water appears to be waist deep.

4)Thats 3 points, not a couple. :)

[camle]

lol~! thanx, i think...

never said I could count;-)

[darth]

Oh hell, that’s a Texas Guppie.

They make good bait.