Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
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> Thannks for the good memory. My favorite uncle used to run a
> bait/tackle/bicycle repair shop/general merchantile when I was a kid.
> Since he worked on or at least baited every hook for a good fifty
> miles, whenever there was a big catch it was brought by the store and
> a picture was taken of it and sent to the local paper and a copy
> posted on the wall of the store. You REALLY don't want to know how
> big those channel cats can get.........I remember one tied to the
> front bumper of a pickup and posted next to a picture of the same
> pickup with a deer on the front......catfish was WAY bigger.
>
> Rumor was if you wanted to commit suicide, do it near Blewitt Falls
> on the PeeDee River. Seems the catfish near the dam were supposed to
> eat the evidence if you didn't want to be found. Yes, they WERE that
> big.
> My daddy nailed them to a tree so they couldn't escape before he
> skinned them. Kept him from being 'finned' as well.
> -ginny

I've seen those huge ones at Silver Springs in Florida.
The water is incredibly deep but so clear you can see to the bottom.
Those catfish circling around for give-aways were *enormous*, like
sharks.
Dora