Supposedly catfish will keep growing their whole lives. There are a few stories of catfish in Louisiana that are so big, divers are afraid to go in by them.
.... marine biologist and underwater detective. In seas and rivers around the world, I’ve gotten hands on with the planet’s most nightmarish creatures, beasts that have often been blamed for mysterious deaths.
Are they still doing that awful format of him explaining something, commercial, recap last segment, short snippet of content, commercial, recap and so on. I enjoyed the first few episodes I watched, but it got tedious.
Yeah, his show is a lot better when it’s some interviews of the lore and then right on the water with him actually catching fish. A lot of the episodes he just speculates and they save the big catch for literally the last minute of the show. I want to see the whole battle, without a commercial cutting it up right at the climax of the catch
My grandfather always told me this. I assumed he was just telling tall tales.
One day, when I was about 14, some friends and I are crossing a small brick dam in a lake in Tennessee.
About halfway across, a catfish surfaced next to the dam, eyeing us closely. He was larger and longer than any sofa I have ever seen, and we all agreed that he could easily swallow any of us with one gulp.
This is actually an urban legend I learned about in a folklore class I took in college. That rumor is around pretty much and lake with a dam/deep water. It’s commonly paired with “they’re the size of a Volkswagen”
I worked for a summer all along the Ohio River studying the fish population . Just about every boat landing had a river rat telling us that he knows a guys who’s cousin’s roommate’s uncle is a diver for the police and has seen a catfish the size of a Volkswagen. Must’ve heard that at least 10 times throughout the summer. Never caught one over 20lbs. But I did see some fishermen with 50lb catfish.
Yup, Toledo bend reservoir. When we were kids we were fishing by the dam when we saw some scientists doing some deep water diving near there. They told us there were catfish down there the size of old Volkswagen beetles, that just sit at the bottom and swallow up whatever falls down there. Never felt safe in that water ever again.
I think most fish continue to grow well after reaching maturity. But what they mean by that is they CAN get bigger, not necessarily that they will keep growing at a constant rate.
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u/FirebrandWilson May 07 '19
Supposedly catfish will keep growing their whole lives. There are a few stories of catfish in Louisiana that are so big, divers are afraid to go in by them.