FTR Visitor Pic – 100 Lb Catfish…honest!

well actually……there are reports of blues being caught in the Red….Doesnt happen to often but the old-timers seem to know about it…..

I wonder how much of that is a fluke from farm-pond escapees. Some people will stock them to keep the bluegill & sunny population in check and one or two are bound to get out during spring floods. It’s not that I’m doubting that one could migrate; we had a black bear come visit Dubuque this year!

Down at Fin & Feather they have a polaroid of a 3lb piranah(sp?) that was supposedly caught in Cedar Lake last year. Oddly, I remember several stories of piranahs being caught there when I was a kid. They would outgrow their aquarium at home and people would toss them in.

yeah I was born and raised in CR…. I remember the piranha stories from Cedar Lake… I have my doubts on them… but who knows….. seems like if people were tossing them in to lakes like that the south might be overrun with them by now…. but piranha cant take much cold… thats what did mine in! I remember going to ISU and there were even stories of piranha in good ol lake “latrine”…. and stories of about everything else… I just never saw it… even when we were electroshocking and netting it for population studies….

Those blues are probably big male channel cats. People seem to make that mistake all the time. Vern

OK GUYS, after seeing an actual 100 pound catfish i’d have to say that myne waasn’t quite that big, but i must say myne definately made the 4 1/2 feet long to the 5 foot mark, so if anyone has some ideas on that, I also must say it was one ugly monkeybutt. It really looked prehistoric. Very dark in color, the belly was pretty dark to. IT is just one of those things you had to be there i guess. Only 3 people know the size of it, but it was one of the greatest catches in my life.

I agree with backward eddy, the coloration does look rather “fishy”, whoever posted this verify somehow, if it is 96 pounds and caught in wisconsin why isn’t there talk about a new state record? anyone?

This fish is defiantely a cut and paste job

Dude …what happened to the flying women?

i had accidently cut it out and keep forgetting to put it on, but it will be back on soon

Has the DNR verified the catch as a flathead? I am curious if the fish was aged. This is done by removing a spine. I am curious to know how old the fish is/was?

Not a Flat! Domed head, and fin placement not correct for a Flat. Not a Channel! No male channel would live long enough to gain that type of girth, and body style. It would be a Blue if it is real. Time for DNA testing! Send a sample of the fish into the Maury Povich show, and he can tell you who the father is!!!!

Tuck

Just glad I could help!

That is a picture of a blue flathead………

blue flathead….now I’ve heard everything!

Matt

NO you Have not heard everything….. this is a blueflathead hybrid from a pay pond that was readio tagged two years ago in Iowa………… NOW YOU HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING!

What will us wacky Iowan’s think of next???

it was in a pond in my garage grown from the year of 1913

Your garage is big enough to have a pond in it?! WOW! Now I’m sure I”ve heard everything!

Matt

P.S. I had already heard about the blue flathead hybrids before in a past article in In-Fisherman

Oh yes, i have a damn in there too, run it right off the river, try to be hush about it though, dnr might get upset with me