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An Interesting Fish Story..

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crusty

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Just recieved this E-mail


This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle

Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. A resident in the area saw a ball

bouncing around kind of strange in a nearby pond and went to investigate.
It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow
a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth!!

The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to
because
the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. The resident
tried
numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally
had
his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry

catfish.
You probably wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the
following
pictures...



Crusty
 

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rofl rofl amazing how it allowed them to get so close to cut it out..
 
rofl rofl Crazy
Wow Breathe hold sports are becoming dangerous, cant chew gum, eat tic tacs and now basket balls.

What is this world coming to :duh rofl rofl rofl
 
:) Lucky fish, if it was in the Deep south swamplands they would have eaten the fish and used the ball for baiting the next one :) :)
 
Groupermadness said:
:) Lucky fish, if it was in the Deep south swamplands they would have eaten the fish and used the ball for baiting the next one :) :)

Youra darrn too right on that one!

Yeeehaaaw, Honey! Wheres that kids ball at? I'm a going fishin!
 
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