In approx 1984, I was a little kid approx 10-12yrs old, down in WV, I was at my Gma’s house and a friend of the family stopped by to show off this fish he caught from the New River. He had this gigantic catfish in the back of his truck, it’s head was up on a tire or something so its head was sticking up out of the back corner of the bed, its tail curved around a bit near the front. Typical truck has an 8’ bed. I recall my cousin who was same age as me, his dad picked him up to see if his head would fit in the catfish’s mouth, and it did…not all the way but it showed that he could’ve been swallowed up by this hideous beast of a fish. We always hear about these big catfish in the Amazon but they are in USA too.
Here in Europe as well. Not sure if it is Spain or Portugal or both. But there is a river/electric power plant where they attack people every year. They are *HUUUUGE!* And as we know, they keep growing and eat anything they *THINK* they can swallow! And in India, the river *GANGES*, they actually DO eat people and attack them all the time. Because of the funeral system they have there. The Ganges is a sacred river, so people get cremated by the river. And when you don't have steady heat over certain degrees, the flesh won't get totally burned neither the bones. And everything goes in the river. Ergo, those huge catfish *WILL* get a taste for human flesh and develop hunting skills to hunt humans. And according to reports, many people vanish by the river every months. And way to many claims that *She was standing there, not even 50 cm of water washing her clothes. I turned away for two seconds, heard her shout and turned around! I saw her hand get dragged under water in a big splash! And we couldn't find her Sir!* Sounds like it is straight out of a horror story, but it is a real nightmare people are living with. Scary to think about. 😳🤟😎
No hè is just talking about catfish like it is all the same spicies, but some of those things are not even thrue, with the info hè gifes it is like every catfish is dreadly, i live in europe and we have the biggest catfish the wels catfish, these are gentle giants ho only eat Fish and birds and smal manols. The catfish you shut be affraid of is the goonch catfish, this fish is nown to eat small humans, the catfish in northern America is not dangures.
I know of a channel catfish getting caught in Indiana in the early 2000s not far from were I lived in a small pay pond it was 107 lbs that is baby eating size so there is big boys and momma's out there also stories at Muncie Indiana res of a two story home by the res damn under the water around 30 to 40 ft of water were divers said they saw two or more large human sized cat fish in the broken remains of this underwater home. So don't ever underestimate what's out there
My Grandfather grew up on the Cumberland River, around Cumberland falls in Kentucy. He told me stories about the giant catfish there back around 1900, how one section of the river near there was named "Dogs Leg" not because of the shape of the river, but because so many swimming dogs had been pulled under there by catfish.
I live in KY too, near the Ohio river. My uncle used to work as security for Ashland oil, and told me a story about the catfish in the river. A dive team went into the river near where they put barges in, they were looking for a car who's occupant had supposedly had a medical emergency and was caught on video driving off the dock and into the water. Supposedly a diver (part of a forensics team from Louisville or Lexington) came scrambling back out of the water after a few minutes screaming, and refused to get back in. He said that they'd told them that there was a catfish literally the size of a full size Chevy Silverado sitting right underneath the dock. We'd always been told growing up that cartfish will eat anything smaller than they are, and we'd always heard tales of the giant one that supposedly lived in the river. I honestly believe that what this dude saw was real.
@@nathanhall2642 I`ve heard many of the stories from there and one thing I know for sure is that they will eat anything that rolls down the river, car parts, all kinds of stuff. Saw one ,one time that had a leather work boot in it`s belly.
Here on the western slope of Colorado, the Colorado River can open up into some very deep waters that allow for catfish to get very big! In '14 I was swimming at such a place and had a catfish bite onto my right calf! This fish was massive! It wasn't a terrible bite and I had all but forgotten about it until this video!
With the drought going on I`ve been waiting to here about big fish being caught out of the colorado river but the only reports are little ones and I have been asking on the net too but it appears that there are no fish in that river according to people. But the stories from those dams since I was a young kid still have me wondering.
All these big cat fish, except for the one Jeremy Wade was seen dragging up onto the shore, are Europe based Wells catfish. Wells cats have been recorded at ten feet. The Mekong Catfish, endangered, record is 646 lb. Southern USA below dams have urban legend stories of massive catfish in the hundreds of pounds, but the record N American hook & line cat is 124 lb, A Flathead caught off Memphis Tenn in the Mississippi River. I'm sure 175 lb Blue cats have been caught and not recorded. All my long life I have blown tens of thousands of dollars hunting Flathead and Blue cats in every part of N. America. My PB is 67lb. Blue in the Ohio, at Portsmouth Ohio, at Alexandria Point. Tight Lines folks.
A suggestion but not sure how to pull it off would be to drift a bait down to the dam in the big impoundments. I've heard from maintenance of divers who during dam inspection have seen catfish big enough to worry about being eaten. The no boating or swimming a quarter mile or more from the dam makes them hard to reach..they just stay there not expending energy waiting for food to come down River. While I take the size with a grain of salt it also makes sense. As far as your quest for huge flatheads..fish below dams driftfishing large live bait. You'll loose a lot of tackle but hits are normally in behind the second hump in the outflow. I've caught flatheads around 90 lbs this way. In the Ohio River (eastern ky)I found a dead catfish floating which we pulled out with an accurate weight of 116lbs however no idea of what the actual live weight would be (it was beginning to rot and dumped back in the river after weighing). If you or anyone reading this decides to go after Master catfish below dams be very careful you go up close to the dam and drift back down. If they open up the dam for level control or power it can be very dangerous very quickly.
You've probably heard of this since you fished this part of the country, but when the bridge connecting Ohio and West Virginia collapsed the rescue divers gave up because they said there were catfish the size of trucks all over the scene
I have heard those rumors all my life also. Divers and officials who supposedly saw them while diving. Hoover Dam and Lake Powell Res in particular. I have watched and listened, talked with other fishermen and boaters and nothing near those rumors were true that anyone else saw either. Now that Hoover and Powell are drying up, still no sightings. So it seems they are just rumors after all. Makes me sad.
Not sure its still alive, but given this information it's quite possible. While growing up in a small town, within the harbor there was a small canal with a bridge to the beach. People would fish there on a daily basis, and often catch a catfish which was nicknamed 'Ol' Scratch'. If you waited long enough, you would see a shadow rise up from beneath the bridge. It was a freshwater catfish about as long as my adult arm. People that would catch it, just threw it back. 'Thanks for the fight Ol' Scratch' and release the catfish. Its a childhood memory, thanks for reminding me.
The natural cat fish don't do such evil acts.. the cat fish that do this is called African catfish in India and they are banned. These catfish are breed by Muslim. This is a Muslim plan.
Saw a catfish eat a German Shepard in Germany..a guy was throwing a toy out in the water. Note that large catfish are predators and going after living prey more often than scavenging.
happens every now an then, but mostly it's smaller dogs it's also a different kind of catfish than the one most common in the US current fishing record is at a bit over 8 feet
Those mostly teethless meat tubes can be REALLY damn intimidating. Being from Louisiana, I've had my fair share of encounters with catfish, including going noodling (using your arm as bait inside catfish nests)
@@sonia88marez Idk if you have the conditions for it in California. Catfish like shallow muddy water with soft bottoms so they can dig tunnels. A good rule of thumb is, if you can find gators in a body of water, you can find Catfish
@@sonia88marez you can't.... and don't. They grow bigger since the environment is different, I've heard stories of divers going "missing" at lake Shasta near the dam, think of pickup size because they have no predators to get them before they get that size. In the South, there's enough predators to keep em in check.
@@GlorifiedGremlin I just became double thankful of where I grew up. It's called Catfish Creek and the little bastards are everywhere, but it's in Canada. No gators for ages.
The Indian Goonch catfish had a diet that included recently discarded partially burnt remains. Many protesters had reservations for this leftover custom to be abolished but participation reportedly has died off.
That was a Very interesting episode of River Monsters, glad his wife was looking out for him. Their anniversary, "So Darling, what would you like for your anniversary gift?" "You." "Okay darling." So caring 😔☺️
I grew up on Herrington lake in Danville Kentucky. The lake is about 25 miles long and behind my house it was around 300 to 500 feet deep. I was relaxing on our boat dock and witnessed a 5 or 6 foot long catfish swim by very close to the surface, i didn’t go swimming for a while after that!
@@SweetLilWren It's not at all like dirt, and it's not grainy or slimy either. It's very tender and juicy and melty and absolutely full of flavors that perfectly lend themselves to fried food dishes. Catfish are imo the best tasting fish (depending on the species, can't speak for any outside America)
@@SweetLilWren there's a way to make a catfish taste doesn't like a dirt at all. And here there's even a breeder of catfish to sell and cocked it, also many restaurant sell this fishes
The best tasting catfish are when they weigh about two pounds. Once they start getting bigger the taste of the catfish start tasting like mud. If, for instance, the underside is of a yellow color then the catfish tastes like mud. That is why the yellow bellied catfish are called mud catfish. The best way to eat those kind of fish is to cut the flesh in small nuggets. Then coat the fish spicy seasoning and cornmeal and flour mix. Now I’m getting hungry for catfish. Time to go fishing.
The closer you get to the water, the further you fall down the food chain. So much so that once you're in the water, you sit between plankton and krill.
This reminds me of my early years in Arkansas. An older local guy was known for fishing for a living, After a successful trip (about once per wk) he would drive through the neighborhood slowly and folk would come out to see what he had that day for sale. Often he would have blue channel catfish, Once when he stopped at our house my dad and I went out to see what he had in his truck. I heard him say that he had a big catfish, The fish was certainly big. It had been out of the water for more than an hour and it was still alive. My dad said it was the biggest that he'd ever seen, The fisherman agreed that it was the largest that he had ever caught. The question was asked, of course, what does it weigh? He had some old scales that he use for weighing the normal fish when he sold them. The scales went up to 100 lbs. He hooked it in the fish's mouth and it took both him and my dad to lift the fish and scales up to hang it on a little bsr extended from the back of his truck. I'll never forget the reading on the scales. 90 pounds. I think each of them was surprised. They were sure excited.
The natural cat fish don't do such evil acts.. the cat fish that do this is called African catfish in India and they are banned. These catfish are breed by Muslim. This is a Muslim plan.
Wow! I didn't know catfish can GROW that large. They're pretty tasty to me as my next sushi lunch, the Japanese fishermen will be reeling in big bucks. However; we can eat them to beat them.
@@emanueldelacruz1101 yeah, channel catfish from steadily moving waters are the only ones ive ever really been partial to. Blues and others get muskier the larger they get.
Years ago an underwater welder told me he had a scary encounter working at the Lake Texoma dam. He was repairing the spill gates - already scary - but noticed when he struck an arc, a current would start pushing his arms causing him to loose his place. Irritated and wanting to see what it was he turned around and struck an arc to the ground clam, only to see a catfish mouth the size of an open Volkswagen Beetle trunk. His words. He dropped his gear, surfaced and refused to go back down alone. That was in the 80’s. It could still be down there.
Savannah River in GA, welders work in teams of at least 3 because of dinosaur catfish (also reported in early 1980s). 2 to work crazy fast (as possible) & 1 to stand guard!
Every dam in the U.S. has these stories. That's all they are, stories. Even the largest catfish only has a mouth about the size of a basketball. People are terrible at judging the size of things.
@@gabrielaguilar1391 I’ve seen catfish caught that would easily grab a basketball, so let’s call that not a maximum. I got the feeling he was excited and could have told a bit of a fish story. But let me tell you, catfish will keep growing to the space and food they have. Even if it were only a third larger than your basket ball estimate it could easily grab him and hold him down until he expires. So let’s give the fellow, and many others that say the same, just a little credence.
@@gabrielaguilar1391 I know what I saw with my own 👀. And it wasn't at a dam, it was an inlet. 2 others saw it as well, pilot & my friend. And it was absolutely of dinosaur proportion. I won't ever swim in anything but a pool. 😐 There are leviathons in those depths.
@@singingwindrider9881 so how come no one has ever caught one of these monsters? Or a dead one wash ashore? I have no doubt you saw a big fish, but people are terrible at judging size. I will believe these stories when proof is provided.
There are quite a number of wood prints and stories from the middle ages about children being eaten by freshwater fish. And seeing how large a Wells Catfish can grow turns what a lot of people thought were myths or fables into quiet stories that are very possible.
Catfish are largely invasive species in most of their thriving environments and have no natural predators in those locations which is why they can grow so large. What I remember from Our Planet I think.
Anytime I hear . "invasive" species, with "no natural predators in those locations" . I just think *Bet* , I'd make a show Called "Unnatural Alliances" . The whole point of the show is to visit areas with invasive species and 1 hunt them down, 2 create an oasis for them 3 Film us going hog wilding for the camera. . Obviously the main goal is to help the environment, but the other half is to Establish Humanities dominance in the wetlands.
@@dandywaysofliving Lol well your show would probably fail. You think people aren't actively trying to get rid of invasive species? They're called invasive for a reason. For example, the Burmese Python is a major problem in Florida. They are actively hunted down but nowhere close to being extirpated. Long story short, you'd lose your bet
My 22yr old son still remembers me getting bitten by a catfish.... To this day he will still cut his fishing line if one is hooked. The bad thing about this. The catfish that bit me was about 5 to 7lbs and only had my thumb. My 5 year old son was freaking out the whole time. I was trying to tell him it didn't hurt but I guess he didn't want to believe that. It was late and that was the only freaking fish I caught that day. It was just way to hot I guess and I tried to lip it. I grabbed it by the bottom lip and it grabbed me. Lol. I was just trying to take the hook out so I could let him go. An old man walks up laughing and asked me if I needed some help? I said sure and after about 10 minutes the catfish let go. The old man asked me what I was going to do with it? I said I was going to let it go but now I'm leaning towards mounting it on my wall. Lol. I ended up giving the old man the catfish to eat. He said that in all of his years he'd never seen a catfish bite someone like it did me. I said well who can blame it, it's fighting for its life......
Catfish are jacks of all trades and masters of all (at least as far as fish go). In an end of the world scenario, besides cockroaches and rats surviving, I could totally see catfish doing the same.
Their like alligators in attack style. They grab prey drag it the bottom to drown and shred whatever they caught. Freshwater river cats are like goldfish, they grow to the size of their environment.
Jeremy Wade estimated that a 35lb fish in its element of the water was capeable of dragging a full grown man(think he used 185lb for reference)to his demise if they somehow were wrapped up in the line, or tied onto the fisherman’s toe in that particular episode.
There`s these fellows that have a You Tube channel have managed to catch one in Europe at 280lbs and 8 ft long, got to see the full video to believe it.
In India, dead people are sometimes consigned to the rivers. The giant Goonch catfish has been recorded feeding on these corpses, and occasionally attacking live people. They have some rather nasty teeth.
I believe it's called a whiscash ,it's water and ground thus thunder resistant resistantance I was gonna comment something similar about being based of a pokemon lol
There are 100 Kilo Catfish that can drag a human to the bottom and drawn him! Not to mention dogs,ducks, swans and children!I am talking about Danube river as it passes Belgrade at a intersection with Sava River! They are huge!
Idk that catfish can grow up to human size and can be threatening. Here in Indonesia, we eat catfish as it's one of the delicious fish to consume. There's a lot of catfish cultivations especially in Java, and there's a lot of stalls mainly serve only catfish.
People forget that catfish sting. They have something about I don't know what it is but something about their fins that will cut you wide open and staying like a bunch of bumblebees hit you.
It's their pectoral and dorsal fins. These have bones, needle sharp and barbed, which they know how to use. The trick, for small ones (up to about 10 pounds), is to first wear them out, before you land them, and grip them like a baseball. Really small ones move too fast and WILL stick you. Best to pin them down under your shoe, and work the hook free. In The U.S., you really don't have to worry about catfish eating your kids. They lumped A LOT of facts that absolutely DO NOT pertain to all species. Most of it pertained to the Wels catfish, native to Northern Europe, but has been introduced as far away as Spain and Southern Italy. The biggest species we have here are the Blue and the Yellow, or Flathead. The world record Blue is 121lbs, and the record Flathead is about 110. The big ones like deep, dark water.
Yrs ago, my husband(ex) told me when the bridge that collapsed in the Ohio river , divers went down to try and rescue people that the cat fish down there were big enough to swallow a man! Scared the crap out of them!
In the Southern United States of America, "noodling" is a method of catching catfish, where the fisherman's arm intentionally ends up it the fish's mouth. I know that amputated fingers are common in participants, but I have never heard of any injuries more severe.
Do bull sharks. They have the most testosterone of any animal. (To my knowledge) Great Whites are tame water puppies in comparison They can swim 1500 MILES up river and survive in fresh water. There are also lakes in mexico teeming with sharks.
The "touching my child" thing got me rolling in pain through the house of laughing.. for minutes .. Can't watched the video furthermore until after a 10 minutes break :)))) THANKS YOU GUYS \GIRLS doing this to me ^_^
As a kid, I used to go catfish fishing using frogs. It was fun, a bunch of catfish would bite of the same frog and when I would pull it in, some catfish would fall in the boat and some would fall back in the water. The biggest catfish I have caught was two pounds.
it was summer of 1997, i took 3 live chickens and three big ass shark poles on my pontoon boat on ohio river, i ran the boat as close as legally and safe to the markland lock n damn on the west side of damn near indiana side of river..i ended up breaking the only pole that got a hit, the pole, had small aircraft cable , a basic shark rig set up i pulled with my 45hp outboard , the fucking fish pulled me closer to the dam, the unsafe zone...the pole broke and we went went flying down stream a lil.. i quit fishing near the damn after that.. stayed down river near my local big holes, caught 120lb fish just down from the coal burning power plant in madison in. but the damn sure did make a great story.. safe fishin yall
The Wels catfish in Europe are enormous. My father caught a 90lb catfish in the Mississippi River down in Empire Louisiana. It put up a heck of a fight. My dad was so excited , I loved seeing him like that , he was like a kid at Christmas...lol. All of his friends had to come to see it.
There is a story 5 years or so ago about a girl in a tributary to the Amazon getting swallowed whole by a very large catfish but people were watching and acted quickly and they caught the fish and cut the belly open and the girl was alive. Crazy stuff!
My Mom told me a story about how my uncle and her as kids were fishing from a longboat in Thailand and caught a catfish bigger than their boat. They had to cut the line before it pulled them over.
The catfish is called a SOM. It is a variety of Wels catfish. They can reach sizes of about three metres in length and weigh in at up to 250kg. It’s basically a freshwater shark.
Where I live, there is nodding. And yeah it doesn't take really a big catfish to drag you down under water. They are very strong swimmers. My grandfather also told me when he did maintenance at some dam, he saw some titan catfish there. I don't remember if he stated a specific size, but it was a size no one would believe. It was also in an area and depth you don't want to go in, and try to messier them ether.
Your talking about the , "Weils". Catfish in Europe,. Not one of the smaller species found in North America, We have Channel Cat, the Flatheads, the Blue Cat, the Mud Cat A 10# Yellow Belly, is a good catch and good eating, the Biggest Catfish I ever saw was 24#, although back in my youth I have heard of rare 40 to 50# Channel Catfish having been caught in the Mississippi River or the Ohio River, I was born in 1947, and grew up near the Ohio River
years ago my cousin accidently caught a catfish in The Grand River near Cayuga Ontario that was over 5 feet long and was grey rather than black, my uncle figured that was due to age. He had been helping his sister re-bait her hook when his baited hook fell off the cement dock.
Amazing that a fish that will eat almost anything is so dang TASTY! My grandpa used to go to the river and come back with dozens of fish, many of which would be catfish. Grandma would dip them in corn meal and fry them up with hush puppies, and she'd make catfish stew with potatoes and onions. Shoot! Now I'm hungry. : ( Anyway, I always thought that the most dangerous thing about a catfish is that you can be stuck with its spines. Grandpa always said that you have to be very careful how you handle any that you catch.
I remember in the 1980s that divers were inspecting a dam, but they only stayed down in the water for only about ten minutes before they came back up and out of the water and refused to go back because of catfish they said could swallow a man in a single bite
Same thing here in a local lake that was known to have an opening in the bottom that went into the underground aquifer the divers supposedly came flying out of the water. One thing I do know is that some of the local pay lakes do stock 100+ lb catfish in their lakes. Saw 4 of them put in at once one time never was lucky enough to catch one.
i remember hearing a story about a boat sinking during a night trip in some kind of river, and all the people on the boat eventually were stuck swimming in the middle of a river at night. the people got attacked by many huge catfishes which where so heavy that they dragged the people underwater and drowned all of them and the people living over there didnt even understand at the time how all those people went missing. but imagine the horror the people went through before they died... not even knowing whats happening to themself and the people arround them
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I live in Western Canada and in my province at least, we do not have catfish, but we have something almost as dangerous, Northern Pike, and the Pike, is the apex predator of its realm and have no fear of anything. A friend of mine was up north in a fly-in fishing trip and in the boat hauling in a relatively small pike of 3.5 feet, when a Huge Pike, that he didn't see, but his guide did, Who shouted for him to "look out!" and pulled his arm away from the edge of the boat. just as a MUCH larger pike cam and ripped the smaller 3.5 foot pike right out of his hands (it was partially hanging over the edge of the boat) and made off with his pike! he caught a glimpse of the monster (his words, not mine) and if the guide hadn't pulled his arm away from the edge of the boat, he figures he would have lost a bunch of muscle to that hungry pike, as well as the 3.5 footer he caught. He said he has caught a lot of pike in his time but has never seen a Northern pike that big before, but the guide said that the waters of the Northern lakes in Saskatchewan have absolute monster pike well over 5 feet in length, because they are the top of the food chain, they eat each other as well, although I have my doubts that they would get as big as a catfish, that monster pipke must have been incredibly old, but it had NO FEAR of humans and went after the tail of the large pike in their boat! So although we don't have catfish, we have fish that have definitely been known to attack humans, especially spear fishermen who didn't kill them with the first shot, and Pike teeth are actually bigger than Catfish teeth, they are like tiny shark teeth and will draw blood of they bite you and you will get an infection from a bite from a pike, pure and simple, any would that is exposed to the skin of any fish will get infected. they are bacteria breeding grounds! At these sizes I would be tempted to mention the Muskellunge , but this is Well out of the habitat range for Muskie, because Muskie prefer warm heavily vegetated waters, whereas the Northern Pike flourish in cold water lakes and rivers, which is all we have in Northern Sask, Alta, Manitoba and BC. SO these must be some seriously huge fish we're dealing with here. Far larger than in the well fished lakes of the Southern portions of the western Provinces. But one fish that gets massive and is a total joy to catch here, are HUGE lake trout in the Great Slave lake of Northwest Territories and other deep cold water lakes of the north, they can get as big as 65+ lbs. and because they are trout, they are excellent tasting fish, only fish that would taste better than a lake trout would be the Arctic Char, which is world renown for being fantastic eating! I Love eating fish, but not Pike, unless they are caught in early spring, just after spring thaw, otherwise they taste like the bottom of the lake, which is to say they taste like mud! yuck! However, pike lose all that mud flavor when they are properly smoked, they they are good, but I only have ever had good smoked pike from the Natives out in the Northern lakes areas, nobody else seems to do them right. Anyways, I digress, Catfish are definitely huge, and you'll never catch me "noodling" for them, but I might use a saltwater rig to catch a huge one if I can! I've never had catfish, and I have heard boths sides of the story, some say they taste like the bottom of the river/lake they came from others say they are a good eating fish. I guess it would matter if you grew up eating them as opposed to those who did not. I prefer cold water species because that is the climate of fish I live in and catch from, and they are all nicely mild and a good clean flavor, but Pike, they are gross in my book, except for early spring catches, and even then. I would smoke them before eating them.
As a kid I seen dad pull one up from the Whitewater River that was so big I almost jumped out of the boat trying to get away from it. The river in Ks is dirty, dark & murky seeing that come out of the water as a child & dad putting in it the boat was very memorable. It took up half the boat. We use to swim in those rivers & also muddy murky ponds didn't even think twice about being dragged under by a catfish or snapping turtle. Dad also caught a 40 lb snapper & it got a hold of our dogs lip that was an ordeal. Catfish will absolutely eat anything alive or dead. I've seen them eat birds, frogs, lizards & almost anything you can think of to use for bait. Chicken livers that have sat in the sun all day work pretty good or even hotdogs
Had a Great-Uncle involved in catfish farming back in 60s & 70s. Showing off his ponds to us (a gaggle of nieces&nephews), came across a snake, told us "watch this" and flipped the snake out on the water. Not a vigorous as vid seen of piranha attacks, but, just as final for a 2ft snake.
I once lived in Central African Republic. I had heard tales of the electric catfish that lived in the Shinko River. Turns out they're not tails at all, they are real and they are big and they taste great!
In approx 1984, I was a little kid approx 10-12yrs old, down in WV, I was at my Gma’s house and a friend of the family stopped by to show off this fish he caught from the New River. He had this gigantic catfish in the back of his truck, it’s head was up on a tire or something so its head was sticking up out of the back corner of the bed, its tail curved around a bit near the front. Typical truck has an 8’ bed. I recall my cousin who was same age as me, his dad picked him up to see if his head would fit in the catfish’s mouth, and it did…not all the way but it showed that he could’ve been swallowed up by this hideous beast of a fish. We always hear about these big catfish in the Amazon but they are in USA too.
Here in Europe as well. Not sure if it is Spain or Portugal or both. But there is a river/electric power plant where they attack people every year. They are *HUUUUGE!* And as we know, they keep growing and eat anything they *THINK* they can swallow! And in India, the river *GANGES*, they actually DO eat people and attack them all the time. Because of the funeral system they have there. The Ganges is a sacred river, so people get cremated by the river. And when you don't have steady heat over certain degrees, the flesh won't get totally burned neither the bones. And everything goes in the river. Ergo, those huge catfish *WILL* get a taste for human flesh and develop hunting skills to hunt humans. And according to reports, many people vanish by the river every months. And way to many claims that *She was standing there, not even 50 cm of water washing her clothes. I turned away for two seconds, heard her shout and turned around! I saw her hand get dragged under water in a big splash! And we couldn't find her Sir!* Sounds like it is straight out of a horror story, but it is a real nightmare people are living with. Scary to think about. 😳🤟😎
They are all over the world, they have some monster ones in India, check out River Monsters.
Typical bed on a truck has a 5.5 - 6.33 length. The world record catfish isn't even 8 feet
@@sooweeq123 that’s not true… It took me 2 seconds to google it. The World Record Catfish was caught in 2005. It was 646 pounds and 9 feet long.
I’ve got a 10 ft in my hand right here!!!
Man I hate it when my food tries to eat me.
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Are you a cannibal, maybe?! Don't try eating other cannibals, maybe?
@@voornaam3191 That's asking a lot. Are you a cannibal by the way? If so, wanna hang out?
I know right? doesn't the fish know we're out of the food chain? I guess he's just making sure
@@voornaam3191 Or clowns....tastes funny!
The easiest way to eliminate Catfish:
send Thai people there
Laotions too
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Agreed sir
DONT TOUCH DA CHILD
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No hè is just talking about catfish like it is all the same spicies, but some of those things are not even thrue, with the info hè gifes it is like every catfish is dreadly, i live in europe and we have the biggest catfish the wels catfish, these are gentle giants ho only eat Fish and birds and smal manols. The catfish you shut be affraid of is the goonch catfish, this fish is nown to eat small humans, the catfish in northern America is not dangures.
Sorry my dutch autocorrect is on so some things re speled wrong
I was not expecting a Sr Pello reference.
But, I was pleasantly surprised to see you use footage of Jeremy Wade.
Never Wade Into Rivers Again!
I know of a channel catfish getting caught in Indiana in the early 2000s not far from were I lived in a small pay pond it was 107 lbs that is baby eating size so there is big boys and momma's out there also stories at Muncie Indiana res of a two story home by the res damn under the water around 30 to 40 ft of water were divers said they saw two or more large human sized cat fish in the broken remains of this underwater home. So don't ever underestimate what's out there
the are records of children getting eaten by giant catfish in medieval times
Really? Do u have any articles
In India they say that this still has happened recently not too long ago
I KNEW IT! IT WAS ALWAYS THE KIDS!
I can actually imagine the medieval art with those pale faces of horror and terribly drawn beast creatures
@@dmitriho3671 there was
You gave me another reason why I will never swim in lakes or other ponds.
Shure he's a catfish! Nobody's gonna argue whith that fish!
And they gave me a reason to fry catfish
Tell me about it! In the 70s(pre teenage) if there was water to be accessed.... you couldn’t keep us little bastards out of it!!!
Ive seen some very very big snapping turtles in rivers and ponds before.
*New fear unlocked: River catfish
Meme-worthy reference. Huzzah.
My Grandfather grew up on the Cumberland River, around Cumberland falls in Kentucy. He told me stories about the giant catfish there back around 1900, how one section of the river near there was named "Dogs Leg" not because of the shape of the river, but because so many swimming dogs had been pulled under there by catfish.
I live in KY too, near the Ohio river. My uncle used to work as security for Ashland oil, and told me a story about the catfish in the river.
A dive team went into the river near where they put barges in, they were looking for a car who's occupant had supposedly had a medical emergency and was caught on video driving off the dock and into the water.
Supposedly a diver (part of a forensics team from Louisville or Lexington) came scrambling back out of the water after a few minutes screaming, and refused to get back in. He said that they'd told them that there was a catfish literally the size of a full size Chevy Silverado sitting right underneath the dock.
We'd always been told growing up that cartfish will eat anything smaller than they are, and we'd always heard tales of the giant one that supposedly lived in the river. I honestly believe that what this dude saw was real.
@@nathanhall2642 I`ve heard many of the stories from there and one thing I know for sure is that they will eat anything that rolls down the river, car parts, all kinds of stuff. Saw one ,one time that had a leather work boot in it`s belly.
Here on the western slope of Colorado, the Colorado River can open up into some very deep waters that allow for catfish to get very big! In '14 I was swimming at such a place and had a catfish bite onto my right calf! This fish was massive! It wasn't a terrible bite and I had all but forgotten about it until this video!
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With the drought going on I`ve been waiting to here about big fish being caught out of the colorado river but the only reports are little ones and I have been asking on the net too but it appears that there are no fish in that river according to people. But the stories from those dams since I was a young kid still have me wondering.
All these big cat fish, except for the one Jeremy Wade was seen dragging up onto the shore, are Europe based
Wells catfish. Wells cats have been recorded at ten feet. The Mekong Catfish, endangered, record is 646 lb.
Southern USA below dams have urban legend stories of massive catfish in the hundreds of pounds, but the
record N American hook & line cat is 124 lb, A Flathead caught off Memphis Tenn in the Mississippi River.
I'm sure 175 lb Blue cats have been caught and not recorded. All my long life I have blown tens of thousands of
dollars hunting Flathead and Blue cats in every part of N. America. My PB is 67lb. Blue in the Ohio, at Portsmouth
Ohio, at Alexandria Point. Tight Lines folks.
A suggestion but not sure how to pull it off would be to drift a bait down to the dam in the big impoundments. I've heard from maintenance of divers who during dam inspection have seen catfish big enough to worry about being eaten.
The no boating or swimming a quarter mile or more from the dam makes them hard to reach..they just stay there not expending energy waiting for food to come down River.
While I take the size with a grain of salt it also makes sense.
As far as your quest for huge flatheads..fish below dams driftfishing large live bait. You'll loose a lot of tackle but hits are normally in behind the second hump in the outflow. I've caught flatheads around 90 lbs this way.
In the Ohio River (eastern ky)I found a dead catfish floating which we pulled out with an accurate weight of 116lbs however no idea of what the actual live weight would be (it was beginning to rot and dumped back in the river after weighing).
If you or anyone reading this decides to go after Master catfish below dams be very careful you go up close to the dam and drift back down. If they open up the dam for level control or power it can be very dangerous very quickly.
You've probably heard of this since you fished this part of the country, but when the bridge connecting Ohio and West Virginia collapsed the rescue divers gave up because they said there were catfish the size of trucks all over the scene
Divers sent to check the dam for cracks reported VW bug sized catfish at the bottom of Toledo Bend Reservoir Dam.
I have heard those rumors all my life also. Divers and officials who supposedly saw them while diving. Hoover Dam and Lake Powell Res in particular. I have watched and listened, talked with other fishermen and boaters and nothing near those rumors were true that anyone else saw either. Now that Hoover and Powell are drying up, still no sightings. So it seems they are just rumors after all. Makes me sad.
Not sure its still alive, but given this information it's quite possible.
While growing up in a small town, within the harbor there was a small canal with a bridge to the beach. People would fish there on a daily basis, and often catch a catfish which was nicknamed 'Ol' Scratch'. If you waited long enough, you would see a shadow rise up from beneath the bridge. It was a freshwater catfish about as long as my adult arm. People that would catch it, just threw it back. 'Thanks for the fight Ol' Scratch' and release the catfish.
Its a childhood memory, thanks for reminding me.
Well, that could be one hell of a story concept, imagine Moby Dick but with Ol' Scratch and rats on a toy boat
It’s all fun and games t’il he gets massive and kills people
I love that they throw him back..
The natural cat fish don't do such evil acts.. the cat fish that do this is called African catfish in India and they are banned.
These catfish are breed by Muslim. This is a Muslim plan.
@@Krishnahgg bait bait bait bait
Saw a catfish eat a German Shepard in Germany..a guy was throwing a toy out in the water.
Note that large catfish are predators and going after living prey more often than scavenging.
happens every now an then, but mostly it's smaller dogs
it's also a different kind of catfish than the one most common in the US
current fishing record is at a bit over 8 feet
@@feldgeist2637 8 foot catfish!? holy shit
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Was ot in the lake of konstanz?
@@wutntarnation one of the shipping canals outside of Nuremberg
Those mostly teethless meat tubes can be REALLY damn intimidating. Being from Louisiana, I've had my fair share of encounters with catfish, including going noodling (using your arm as bait inside catfish nests)
I always wanted to try that, but in California idk where to even do that lol.
@@sonia88marez Idk if you have the conditions for it in California. Catfish like shallow muddy water with soft bottoms so they can dig tunnels. A good rule of thumb is, if you can find gators in a body of water, you can find Catfish
@@sonia88marez you can't.... and don't.
They grow bigger since the environment is different, I've heard stories of divers going "missing" at lake Shasta near the dam, think of pickup size because they have no predators to get them before they get that size. In the South, there's enough predators to keep em in check.
Actually, most catfish have teeth, just very tiny ones.
@@GlorifiedGremlin I just became double thankful of where I grew up. It's called Catfish Creek and the little bastards are everywhere, but it's in Canada. No gators for ages.
The Indian Goonch catfish had a diet that included recently discarded partially burnt remains. Many protesters had reservations for this leftover custom to be abolished but participation reportedly has died off.
That was a Very interesting episode of River Monsters, glad his wife was looking out for him. Their anniversary, "So Darling, what would you like for your anniversary gift?"
"You."
"Okay darling."
So caring 😔☺️
I grew up on Herrington lake in Danville Kentucky. The lake is about 25 miles long and behind my house it was around 300 to 500 feet deep. I was relaxing on our boat dock and witnessed a 5 or 6 foot long catfish swim by very close to the surface, i didn’t go swimming for a while after that!
Catfish is dangerous but also such delicacy gourmet. I ate 'em for breakfast, launch and dinner 😤😤😤
@@SweetLilWren come to Indonesia and you know it.
You haven't lived till you've eaten fresh fried catfish and hushpuppies with some okra. I miss Louisiana food every single day of my life
@@SweetLilWren It's not at all like dirt, and it's not grainy or slimy either. It's very tender and juicy and melty and absolutely full of flavors that perfectly lend themselves to fried food dishes. Catfish are imo the best tasting fish (depending on the species, can't speak for any outside America)
@@SweetLilWren there's a way to make a catfish taste doesn't like a dirt at all. And here there's even a breeder of catfish to sell and cocked it, also many restaurant sell this fishes
The best tasting catfish are when they weigh about two pounds. Once they start getting bigger the taste of the catfish start tasting like mud. If, for instance, the underside is of a yellow color then the catfish tastes like mud. That is why the yellow bellied catfish are called mud catfish. The best way to eat those kind of fish is to cut the flesh in small nuggets. Then coat the fish spicy seasoning and cornmeal and flour mix. Now I’m getting hungry for catfish. Time to go fishing.
The closer you get to the water, the further you fall down the food chain. So much so that once you're in the water, you sit between plankton and krill.
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
@@p0llenp0ny LOL Finding Nemo "We're gunna need a bigger butt" XD
This reminds me of my early years in Arkansas. An older local guy was known for fishing for a living, After a successful trip (about once per wk) he would drive through the neighborhood slowly and folk would come out to see what he had that day for sale. Often he would have blue channel catfish, Once when he stopped at our house my dad and I went out to see what he had in his truck. I heard him say that he had a big catfish, The fish was certainly big. It had been out of the water for more than an hour and it was still alive. My dad said it was the biggest that he'd ever seen, The fisherman agreed that it was the largest that he had ever caught. The question was asked, of course, what does it weigh? He had some old scales that he use for weighing the normal fish when he sold them. The scales went up to 100 lbs. He hooked it in the fish's mouth and it took both him and my dad to lift the fish and scales up to hang it on a little bsr extended from the back of his truck. I'll never forget the reading on the scales. 90 pounds. I think each of them was surprised. They were sure excited.
The natural cat fish don't do such evil acts.. the cat fish that do this is called African catfish in India and they are banned.
These catfish are breed by Muslim. This is a Muslim plan.
Wow! I didn't know catfish can GROW that large. They're pretty tasty to me as my next sushi lunch, the Japanese fishermen will be reeling in big bucks. However; we can eat them to beat them.
Catfish are the nastiest fish. And the fish used for sushi is different
@@emanueldelacruz1101 yeah, channel catfish from steadily moving waters are the only ones ive ever really been partial to. Blues and others get muskier the larger they get.
Years ago an underwater welder told me he had a scary encounter working at the Lake Texoma dam. He was repairing the spill gates - already scary - but noticed when he struck an arc, a current would start pushing his arms causing him to loose his place. Irritated and wanting to see what it was he turned around and struck an arc to the ground clam, only to see a catfish mouth the size of an open Volkswagen Beetle trunk. His words. He dropped his gear, surfaced and refused to go back down alone. That was in the 80’s. It could still be down there.
Savannah River in GA, welders work in teams of at least 3 because of dinosaur catfish (also reported in early 1980s). 2 to work crazy fast (as possible) & 1 to stand guard!
Every dam in the U.S. has these stories. That's all they are, stories. Even the largest catfish only has a mouth about the size of a basketball. People are terrible at judging the size of things.
@@gabrielaguilar1391 I’ve seen catfish caught that would easily grab a basketball, so let’s call that not a maximum. I got the feeling he was excited and could have told a bit of a fish story. But let me tell you, catfish will keep growing to the space and food they have. Even if it were only a third larger than your basket ball estimate it could easily grab him and hold him down until he expires. So let’s give the fellow, and many others that say the same, just a little credence.
@@gabrielaguilar1391 I know what I saw with my own 👀. And it wasn't at a dam, it was an inlet. 2 others saw it as well, pilot & my friend. And it was absolutely of dinosaur proportion. I won't ever swim in anything but a pool. 😐 There are leviathons in those depths.
@@singingwindrider9881 so how come no one has ever caught one of these monsters? Or a dead one wash ashore? I have no doubt you saw a big fish, but people are terrible at judging size. I will believe these stories when proof is provided.
There are quite a number of wood prints and stories from the middle ages about children being eaten by freshwater fish. And seeing how large a Wells Catfish can grow turns what a lot of people thought were myths or fables into quiet stories that are very possible.
Catfish are largely invasive species in most of their thriving environments and have no natural predators in those locations which is why they can grow so large.
What I remember from Our Planet I think.
Anytime I hear
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"invasive" species,
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"no natural predators in those locations"
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I just think *Bet* , I'd make a show
Called "Unnatural Alliances"
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The whole point of the show is to visit areas with invasive species and 1 hunt them down, 2 create an oasis for them 3 Film us going hog wilding for the camera.
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Obviously the main goal is to help the environment, but the other half is to Establish Humanities dominance in the wetlands.
@@dandywaysofliving Lol well your show would probably fail. You think people aren't actively trying to get rid of invasive species? They're called invasive for a reason. For example, the Burmese Python is a major problem in Florida. They are actively hunted down but nowhere close to being extirpated. Long story short, you'd lose your bet
@@vkvk7113 sometimes it's not about succeeding but the will to not give up.
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*I'll die hunting the carp*
@@dandywaysofliving You don't even have to hunt the carp 😉
My 22yr old son still remembers me getting bitten by a catfish.... To this day he will still cut his fishing line if one is hooked. The bad thing about this. The catfish that bit me was about 5 to 7lbs and only had my thumb. My 5 year old son was freaking out the whole time. I was trying to tell him it didn't hurt but I guess he didn't want to believe that.
It was late and that was the only freaking fish I caught that day. It was just way to hot I guess and I tried to lip it. I grabbed it by the bottom lip and it grabbed me. Lol. I was just trying to take the hook out so I could let him go. An old man walks up laughing and asked me if I needed some help? I said sure and after about 10 minutes the catfish let go. The old man asked me what I was going to do with it? I said I was going to let it go but now I'm leaning towards mounting it on my wall. Lol. I ended up giving the old man the catfish to eat. He said that in all of his years he'd never seen a catfish bite someone like it did me. I said well who can blame it, it's fighting for its life......
That's a cool story, glad you gave it to him if you weren't mounting it.
Little did they know that while they were trying to shock the catfish, they were just recharging its batteries.
Catfish are jacks of all trades and masters of all (at least as far as fish go). In an end of the world scenario, besides cockroaches and rats surviving, I could totally see catfish doing the same.
2:28 I complitly did not expected sr pelo cutaway on this channel. You guys are brillint!
Catfish don’t have to be that large to drown a human. And one that’s 300 lbs can definitely take a child to the deoths
Their like alligators in attack style. They grab prey drag it the bottom to drown and shred whatever they caught. Freshwater river cats are like goldfish, they grow to the size of their environment.
Jeremy Wade estimated that a 35lb fish in its element of the water was capeable of dragging a full grown man(think he used 185lb for reference)to his demise if they somehow were wrapped up in the line, or tied onto the fisherman’s toe in that particular episode.
There`s these fellows that have a You Tube channel have managed to catch one in Europe at 280lbs and 8 ft long, got to see the full video to believe it.
In India, dead people are sometimes consigned to the rivers. The giant Goonch catfish has been recorded feeding on these corpses, and occasionally attacking live people. They have some rather nasty teeth.
It's not that the teeth cut. once they sink in maybe 1/8th of an inch, you can't escape or in other terms "insta Fked"
An electric catfish with thunder resistance? Are pokémons real?
Why is Elon Musk not making poké balls yet?!
I believe it's called a whiscash ,it's water and ground thus thunder resistant resistantance I was gonna comment something similar about being based of a pokemon lol
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Wow!!! Can I get your connections number???
Ayy i viewed this video as the 70th person so I see 69 views. Nice
2:29 that was unexpected
I have realized the quality of the videos are getting much better through every upload!
When a human goes fishing he should be careful in case the fish are humaning.
bacause other country dont eat them but here at Philippines thats so yummy cooking at coconut juice with so much chili
2:28 out of nowhere, SrPelo golden content! LOL
There are 100 Kilo Catfish that can drag a human to the bottom and drawn him!
Not to mention dogs,ducks, swans and children!I am talking about Danube river as it passes Belgrade at a intersection with Sava River! They are huge!
Idk that catfish can grow up to human size and can be threatening. Here in Indonesia, we eat catfish as it's one of the delicious fish to consume. There's a lot of catfish cultivations especially in Java, and there's a lot of stalls mainly serve only catfish.
Great video, funny and informative 👍
Catfish and carp both can grow to meet their environment!
I've seen 5 foot long grass carp in holding ponds
People forget that catfish sting. They have something about I don't know what it is but something about their fins that will cut you wide open and staying like a bunch of bumblebees hit you.
It's their pectoral and dorsal fins. These have bones, needle sharp and barbed, which they know how to use. The trick, for small ones (up to about 10 pounds), is to first wear them out, before you land them, and grip them like a baseball. Really small ones move too fast and WILL stick you. Best to pin them down under your shoe, and work the hook free. In The U.S., you really don't have to worry about catfish eating your kids. They lumped A LOT of facts that absolutely DO NOT pertain to all species. Most of it pertained to the Wels catfish, native to Northern Europe, but has been introduced as far away as Spain and Southern Italy. The biggest species we have here are the Blue and the Yellow, or Flathead. The world record Blue is 121lbs, and the record Flathead is about 110. The big ones like deep, dark water.
An "Electric Catfish" that can possibly get who knows how Big. I'm a bit frightened, but also fascinated by the idea! 😎
Here kitty kitty lol 😆 catch them all the time!
at this point animals are getting skill points to unlock skills like a game
Yrs ago, my husband(ex) told me when the bridge that collapsed in the Ohio river , divers went down to try and rescue people that the cat fish down there were big enough to swallow a man! Scared the crap out of them!
Catfish really are just the pelicans of the water
I can wacth this a billion times
It's unfortunate that these catfish can spread so easily but not the endangered ones like the Mekong giant catfish
those are over fished like crazy.
In the Southern United States of America, "noodling" is a method of catching catfish, where the fisherman's arm intentionally ends up it the fish's mouth. I know that amputated fingers are common in participants, but I have never heard of any injuries more severe.
Do bull sharks. They have the most testosterone of any animal. (To my knowledge) Great Whites are tame water puppies in comparison They can swim 1500 MILES up river and survive in fresh water. There are also lakes in mexico teeming with sharks.
Lmaoo "You are touching child"? *Slap* 🤣🤣🤣
🤤 Catfish are delicious! Electric Catfish sounds amazing with tartar sauce!
13 secs, that's how long ago it was uploaded, godt-damn I'm quick wit it
The "touching my child" thing got me rolling in pain through the house of laughing.. for minutes .. Can't watched the video furthermore until after a 10 minutes break :)))) THANKS YOU GUYS \GIRLS doing this to me ^_^
*Catfish influence is so strong, they have their own Marvel variants!!*
You forgot the most important thing about catfish, they’re delicious fried.
As a kid, I used to go catfish fishing using frogs. It was fun, a bunch of catfish would bite of the same frog and when I would pull it in, some catfish would fall in the boat and some would fall back in the water. The biggest catfish I have caught was two pounds.
it was summer of 1997, i took 3 live chickens and three big ass shark poles on my pontoon boat on ohio river, i ran the boat as close as legally and safe to the markland lock n damn on the west side of damn near indiana side of river..i ended up breaking the only pole that got a hit, the pole, had small aircraft cable , a basic shark rig set up i pulled with my 45hp outboard , the fucking fish pulled me closer to the dam, the unsafe zone...the pole broke and we went went flying down stream a lil.. i quit fishing near the damn after that.. stayed down river near my local big holes, caught 120lb fish just down from the coal burning power plant in madison in. but the damn sure did make a great story.. safe fishin yall
ive kept and caught catfish my whole life they are fearsome predators that will try to eat anything if hungry enough
0:23 Bull Sharks have been known to swim upriver and are among the most aggressive sharks known to man.
Apart from sharks, catfish of any size give me the willies, don’t know why, I’ve never even seen one but they do scare me.
The Wels catfish in Europe are enormous. My father caught a 90lb catfish in the Mississippi River down in Empire Louisiana. It put up a heck of a fight. My dad was so excited , I loved seeing him like that , he was like a kid at Christmas...lol. All of his friends had to come to see it.
There is a story 5 years or so ago about a girl in a tributary to the Amazon getting swallowed whole by a very large catfish but people were watching and acted quickly and they caught the fish and cut the belly open and the girl was alive. Crazy stuff!
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Loved the sr pelo clip xD
Ur vids are more fun than true(normal) stuff
Mmmmm, fried catfish, they're some good eating.
Jeremy Wade made me appreciate the docile nature of sharks vs big ass fish that don't GAF.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the hillbilly noodlers
My Mom told me a story about how my uncle and her as kids were fishing from a longboat in Thailand and caught a catfish bigger than their boat. They had to cut the line before it pulled them over.
The catfish is called a SOM. It is a variety of Wels catfish. They can reach sizes of about three metres in length and weigh in at up to 250kg. It’s basically a freshwater shark.
Where I live, there is nodding. And yeah it doesn't take really a big catfish to drag you down under water. They are very strong swimmers. My grandfather also told me when he did maintenance at some dam, he saw some titan catfish there. I don't remember if he stated a specific size, but it was a size no one would believe. It was also in an area and depth you don't want to go in, and try to messier them ether.
Didnt expect to see sir pelo's undertale animation here on this channel xD
Your talking about the ,
"Weils". Catfish in Europe,. Not one of the smaller species found in North America,
We have Channel Cat, the Flatheads, the Blue Cat, the Mud Cat
A 10# Yellow Belly, is a good catch and good eating, the Biggest Catfish I ever saw was 24#, although back in my youth I have heard of rare 40 to 50# Channel Catfish having been caught in the Mississippi River or the Ohio River, I was born in 1947, and grew up near the Ohio River
years ago my cousin accidently caught a catfish in The Grand River near Cayuga Ontario that was over 5 feet long and was grey rather than black, my uncle figured that was due to age. He had been helping his sister re-bait her hook when his baited hook fell off the cement dock.
You use your arm while noodling? Oops 😬 I've been doing that wrong this whole time
Amazing that a fish that will eat almost anything is so dang TASTY! My grandpa used to go to the river and come back with dozens of fish, many of which would be catfish. Grandma would dip them in corn meal and fry them up with hush puppies, and she'd make catfish stew with potatoes and onions. Shoot! Now I'm hungry. : (
Anyway, I always thought that the most dangerous thing about a catfish is that you can be stuck with its spines. Grandpa always said that you have to be very careful how you handle any that you catch.
OK, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, WE'RE OUT THERE......SOMEWHERE, AND WE'RE WAITING FOR YOU! LOL!!
I'm really glad I found your channel
00:20 you could say she got "Catfished"
My how the turns table
9:37
Painless?
Teething puppies are quite painful.
Their teeth at that young age haven't dulled one bit.
I want to steeve to check about babiya crocodile.
I remember in the 1980s that divers were inspecting a dam, but they only stayed down in the water for only about ten minutes before they came back up and out of the water and refused to go back because of catfish they said could swallow a man in a single bite
Same thing here in a local lake that was known to have an opening in the bottom that went into the underground aquifer the divers supposedly came flying out of the water. One thing I do know is that some of the local pay lakes do stock 100+ lb catfish in their lakes. Saw 4 of them put in at once one time never was lucky enough to catch one.
I freaking love this part 😂❤ 2:29
They're delicious with corn bread batter.
This was awesome!
i remember hearing a story about a boat sinking during a night trip in some kind of river, and all the people on the boat eventually were stuck swimming in the middle of a river at night. the people got attacked by many huge catfishes which where so heavy that they dragged the people underwater and drowned all of them and the people living over there didnt even understand at the time how all those people went missing. but imagine the horror the people went through before they died... not even knowing whats happening to themself and the people arround them
Sounds like a C movie, at best.
fake
don't assume it's fake lol
if they are dead serious about it then it's real.
@@wartanklover67883 It is man's God given right to tell a good story. If you think people don't need them what are you doing right now?
Just read that some of the are suspected of drowning people. That’s whole new fear unlocked for me.😂
Fried catfish, hush puppies, coleslaw, and beans sound good to me!
Pigs and humans are very alike...😆
Catfish animation just shocking everything 😆
Can you read me a bedtime story.
I love your voice and your channel is so much fun watching
Plus im learning a lot about the world from you!
Greetings from Bosnia! ❤
Well, ordering catfish dishes is far more vindicating now, on top of being delicious. Let's do what we can to keep their numbers checked, eh?
I live in Western Canada and in my province at least, we do not have catfish, but we have something almost as dangerous, Northern Pike, and the Pike, is the apex predator of its realm and have no fear of anything. A friend of mine was up north in a fly-in fishing trip and in the boat hauling in a relatively small pike of 3.5 feet, when a Huge Pike, that he didn't see, but his guide did, Who shouted for him to "look out!" and pulled his arm away from the edge of the boat. just as a MUCH larger pike cam and ripped the smaller 3.5 foot pike right out of his hands (it was partially hanging over the edge of the boat) and made off with his pike! he caught a glimpse of the monster (his words, not mine) and if the guide hadn't pulled his arm away from the edge of the boat, he figures he would have lost a bunch of muscle to that hungry pike, as well as the 3.5 footer he caught. He said he has caught a lot of pike in his time but has never seen a Northern pike that big before, but the guide said that the waters of the Northern lakes in Saskatchewan have absolute monster pike well over 5 feet in length, because they are the top of the food chain, they eat each other as well, although I have my doubts that they would get as big as a catfish, that monster pipke must have been incredibly old, but it had NO FEAR of humans and went after the tail of the large pike in their boat! So although we don't have catfish, we have fish that have definitely been known to attack humans, especially spear fishermen who didn't kill them with the first shot, and Pike teeth are actually bigger than Catfish teeth, they are like tiny shark teeth and will draw blood of they bite you and you will get an infection from a bite from a pike, pure and simple, any would that is exposed to the skin of any fish will get infected. they are bacteria breeding grounds! At these sizes I would be tempted to mention the Muskellunge , but this is Well out of the habitat range for Muskie, because Muskie prefer warm heavily vegetated waters, whereas the Northern Pike flourish in cold water lakes and rivers, which is all we have in Northern Sask, Alta, Manitoba and BC. SO these must be some seriously huge fish we're dealing with here. Far larger than in the well fished lakes of the Southern portions of the western Provinces. But one fish that gets massive and is a total joy to catch here, are HUGE lake trout in the Great Slave lake of Northwest Territories and other deep cold water lakes of the north, they can get as big as 65+ lbs. and because they are trout, they are excellent tasting fish, only fish that would taste better than a lake trout would be the Arctic Char, which is world renown for being fantastic eating! I Love eating fish, but not Pike, unless they are caught in early spring, just after spring thaw, otherwise they taste like the bottom of the lake, which is to say they taste like mud! yuck! However, pike lose all that mud flavor when they are properly smoked, they they are good, but I only have ever had good smoked pike from the Natives out in the Northern lakes areas, nobody else seems to do them right. Anyways, I digress, Catfish are definitely huge, and you'll never catch me "noodling" for them, but I might use a saltwater rig to catch a huge one if I can! I've never had catfish, and I have heard boths sides of the story, some say they taste like the bottom of the river/lake they came from others say they are a good eating fish. I guess it would matter if you grew up eating them as opposed to those who did not. I prefer cold water species because that is the climate of fish I live in and catch from, and they are all nicely mild and a good clean flavor, but Pike, they are gross in my book, except for early spring catches, and even then. I would smoke them before eating them.
I heard a similar story in the news recently in the lower great lakes of a giant muskie.
Thats crazy ive never before heard of a catfish 6 feet long thats a whole new danger to be careful of when swimming.
For those fountain pen lovers, jump to 8:17. You realize Nathan Tardif has a sense of humor.
As a kid I seen dad pull one up from the Whitewater River that was so big I almost jumped out of the boat trying to get away from it. The river in Ks is dirty, dark & murky seeing that come out of the water as a child & dad putting in it the boat was very memorable. It took up half the boat. We use to swim in those rivers & also muddy murky ponds didn't even think twice about being dragged under by a catfish or snapping turtle. Dad also caught a 40 lb snapper & it got a hold of our dogs lip that was an ordeal. Catfish will absolutely eat anything alive or dead. I've seen them eat birds, frogs, lizards & almost anything you can think of to use for bait. Chicken livers that have sat in the sun all day work pretty good or even hotdogs
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Had a Great-Uncle involved in catfish farming back in 60s & 70s. Showing off his ponds to us (a gaggle of nieces&nephews), came across a snake, told us "watch this" and flipped the snake out on the water. Not a vigorous as vid seen of piranha attacks, but, just as final for a 2ft snake.
done with rivers too.
I once lived in Central African Republic. I had heard tales of the electric catfish that lived in the Shinko River. Turns out they're not tails at all, they are real and they are big and they taste great!
was that an albino catfish @6:15 ??
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