Now THAT'S a Mississippi Cat!

[Maddy McCall]

Don't know any particulars about this fish except that it appears to have been caught in the Mississippi River near the Delta. At any rate:

:wow:

[Bertha Venation]

1. PUT IT BACK!

NOW!

[LynneSin]

2. no way !!

mmmmmm, blackened catfish

yummy!!

[Maddy McCall]

7. Southern fried or grilled with lemon juice...

yummmmmm.

[Flaxbee]

31. I'm with you 100% BV!

PUT IT BACK RIGHT THIS MINUTE!

Anything that grand, that has made it to that magnificence, deserves some respect, not to be cut up, eaten and shat out of some asshole, literally.

That creature exists for a reason beyond anybody's frigging tastebuds or misplaced macho pride.


AAAARRRRGHHH! PUT IT BACK RIGHT THIS INSTANT!

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

3. Holy crap!

That sucker could swallow someone!

EDIT: that has to be PhotoShopped - right?

[Maddy McCall]

5. Nope, not photoshopped.

[Westegg]

4. Damn! My first apartment was smaller than that!

[Maddy McCall]

6. Here's the Iowa State Record Cat

[davsand]

32. "We're gonna get a bigger boat. --Right?"

All I can think of is Roy Scheider saying that in Jaws once he gets a look at the size of the shark...


I've heard stories--supposedly from guys who are divers in the Mississippi--saying there are catfish laying up next to the locks and dams that are that large. I'd always dismissed them as urban legends or fishing talk.

Now, I'm not so sure.

Laura

[TacticalPeek]

8. Has anybody seen Jonah?

[RebelOne]

9. That's possibly the Mississippi state-record blue catfish.

caught in the Mississippi River in 1997. It weighed 97 pounds.

[tom_paine]

10. WOW!

I had a pal from SE Missouri. He told me they had cats that big.

But WOW!

[Mass_Liberal]

11. I thought catfish

go to be 1 ft. max. Fuckin hell. Thas big.

[Rowdyboy]

12. Holy Jebus,

I thought I'd seen big cats but that is a BIG CAT. It would take a barrel of cornmeal to batter that big boy, with just enough left over for a few hush puppies.

[Maddy McCall]

27. said like a TRUE Mississippian

;-)

[Zomby Woof]

13. that's a mutant!

What are they dumping in that river? ;-)

Damn, I love to fish though.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Exactly what I was thinking...

Was he caught near the nuclear power plant?

[CatWoman]

19. one of Blinky's pals

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. For real:

[CatWoman]

14. I imagine it wouldn't taste very good

at that size.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Gag!

Can you imagine how rank that meat would be. Give me a pound and under, thank you!

[CatWoman]

28. Yep -- the same with veggies

the smaller ones have the better taste.

[Bake]

33. Too big to be worth a crap for eatin'

That sucker's just too big.

Bake

[commander bunnypants]

16. Imagine noodling that monster..

DOH

DDQM

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Yow!

Amazing.

[Blue-Jay]

18. Sweet Baby Peanut Jebus, that's a big fish!

[supernova]

21. Holy cow!

That is one

BIG FISH

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. Holy nuclear waste, Batman! n/t

[thom1102]

24. Say, nice Catch!

And the fish isn't half bad neither! (the guy on the right's kinda cute) Sorry, couldn't resist!

[AngryAmish]

25. 188 lb sturgeon caught in Wisco two weeks ago

Was not even a state record. Record for Lake Winnebago, through. Something like 88 inches long.

Also, California state record for sturgeon was 485 lbs or so.

[Redneck Socialist]

26. I believe that is a Wels Catfish

Native to Europe so I don't think it came from the Mississippi. I have read that they grow to over two hundred pounds. Check out this link for more photos of giant cats.

http://xvella.free.fr/photos-eng.php?size=1&sub=21&idx=2&cntp=9

[Maddy McCall]

29. Nah, it's a Mississippi cat

looks like a blue cat to me. I've seen forty and fifty pound cats from the Mississippi river...never anything like this, though.

Edit: It may be a channel cat--it's spotted and channel cats are usually spotted.

[geniph]

30. Don't think I'd want to come face to face with that while swimming

not sure who would be eating whom!

[havocmom]

34. report of a fish grabbing a deer on shore of Ft Peck Lake

from a las whose honesty I trust. Said the fish washed to the edge of lake and grabbed a deer taking a drink. We have reliable reports of fish as big as pick up trucks.

Strugeons and paddlefish up here.... I do not go into that lake!

[Maddy McCall]

37. Sturgeons are spooky looking...Aligator Gars are too!

Sturgeon


Gator Gar

I believe you! I would stay away from that lake, too. Look at the teeth on that gar! (Are paddlefish the same as gar?)

[havocmom]

35. what does the hush puppie that goes with it look like?

mmmmm, catfish

[Maddy McCall]

38. I'll settle for this

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36. Poor fish

just swimming along, minding its own business then - fighting, struggle, suffocation...

:-(