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livius drusus
06-08-2010, 03:58 PM
Okay not me, but angler Roberto Godi doesn't have arms long enough (http://www.gofishing.co.uk/Angling-Times/Section/News--Catches/Catch-Reports/June-2010/Potential-IGFA-record-catfish-caught-from-River-Po-in-Italy/) to make the appropriate gesture. This catfish is 250 lb and over 8 feet long. Not a shoop, I swear to God.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/livius/catfish.jpg

:stunned:
wei yau
06-08-2010, 04:09 PM
Roberto’s fish, which was returned to the water alive, has been submitted to the World Game Fishing Association as a claim for the all-tackle world record, currently held by Jakub Vagner’s 242lb 8oz fish, caught in February 2009.

Thank goodness it's still alive. Something like that is way too majestic to be killed, wonder how old it must be.

TLR?
LadyShea
06-08-2010, 04:14 PM
I am also glad it was released.
livius drusus
06-08-2010, 04:26 PM
Me three. The Po is massively polluted, too -- Milan was dumping all of its untreated sewage into it until a few years ago, and the amounts of cocaine from Milanese urine detected in the river reached astronomical proportions -- so this fish had to overcome quite the odds.
Adam
06-08-2010, 04:48 PM
Me three. The Po is massively polluted, too -- Milan was dumping all of its untreated sewage into it until a few years ago, and the amounts of cocaine from Milanese urine detected in the river reached astronomical proportions -- so this fish had to overcome quite the odds.

Odds? That's, like, the perfect recipe for a mutant powered superfish!
livius drusus
06-08-2010, 04:55 PM
Okay fair enough, but he'd be a really skinny mutant powered superfish.
Ymir's blood
06-08-2010, 05:11 PM
Ah, that guy's probably like three feet tall. All those Europeans are short due to their poor diets.
teasasue
06-08-2010, 05:19 PM
that is awesome I would have freaked if I caught a fish that big
Sock Puppet
06-08-2010, 05:19 PM
Thank goodness it's still alive. Something like that is way too majestic to be killed, wonder how old it must be.Wow, I certainly didn't expect this post. I would have assumed you'd be first in line to eat the damned thing.
slimshady2357
06-08-2010, 05:20 PM
Dude's from Luxembourg, that tiny fish wouldn't even make one good meal.
Brimshack
06-08-2010, 11:50 PM
Polution be damned! I want to fillet it.
maddog
06-09-2010, 12:32 AM
that guy on "River Monsters" catches gigantor fish like that all the freaking time. Scary!

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Gonzo
06-09-2010, 10:53 AM
Can we keep him in the sinkhole?