Giant catfish - I wonder if it likes cormorants

[chesters1]

catfish havent got feet but those mouth whips sure look fun

[miasma]

Trifle unfair Newt....Fish was spotted by team

member Richard Freeman who holds a degree in

Zoology and can be assumed to know a catfish

when he sees one.......miasma..

[Newt]

miasma - I just quoted it, didn't write it.

 

Peter was asking how a somewhat lunatic group wound up being spoken of in this thread and I pulled that in to answer him.

 

As to a 7ft Wels - they do grow that large and larger. But not usually in the UK I didn't think due to cool waters.

 

And in the US, stories abound of giant fish (usually catfish) being seen by divers at many of the larger dams here. Some may even be true.

[Chris Shaw]

I seem to recall reading once about dolphins being trained to attached explosives to enemy shipping.

 

I wonder if one of these could be trained to attack bait boats

[Jim Roper]

[ 30 July 2002, 09:38 PM: Message edited by: Jim Roper ]

[Jim Roper]

Yet another way of attracting paying visitors???

 

On the news today is a story of a '3 feet terrapin' attacking grebes on their nests on some 'nature reserve' somewhere. The report said it had probably been flushed down a loo after outgrowing it's tank. Apparantly the local great-crested newts are in danger of being wiped out.

These conservationists will do and say anything for extra visitors.

 

Jim Roper

 

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[Adam S]

Hello

 

in agreement with peter sharpe form earlier in this thread...there is no way a seven foot cat could weigh 24 stone, which is over 300lbs.

 

7 foot should, as peter said ,put the cat at about 100-120lbs or thereabouts.

 

ADAM

[chesters1]

we did have a couple of terrapins at the lea but the didnt eat grebes as far as i know ,did they lyn

[Bruno Broughton]

miasma:

who holds a degree in

Zoology and can be assumed to know a catfish

when he sees one.

Your faith in the education system is admirable; I am more concerned with the group's motives.

 

Still, their four-day survey should be completed any day now...

[miasma]

Bruno...a degree is a degree is it not,or is

Leeds University too far north of Watford to be

considered "educationally safe?"

Yes,the survey finishes soon......but they intend

to return next year.......miasma..

PS...How long can catfish live?