catfish tries to swallow basketball

[KCAggie]

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...

http://www.jwz.org/images/catfish1b.jpg

http://www.jwz.org/images/catfish2b.jpg

http://www.georgehernandez.com/h/aaBlog/2005/media/03-30_CatfishBasketball3.jpg

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2005/catfish_basketball_4.jpg

[Loftin]

Well if only all those fishermen knew that a simple basketball could catch such a big catfish.

[KCAggie]

I'm going to catch a shark with a swiss work out ball