Boyd Gathwright
06-29-2004, 11:07 PM
Just received this story with pics. Felt you fisherman out there would find this of interest.<O:p</O:p
FISH STORY FROM WICHITA EAGLE NEWSPAPER
"This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle
Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. This person was in a housing development around 119th St. South and Maple. Anyhow, a resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange-like in the development’s pond and when he went to investigate, it was a flathead catfish that 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 the ball and release the catfish".
Interesting dilemma.
Boyd :cool:
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FISH STORY FROM WICHITA EAGLE NEWSPAPER
"This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle
Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. This person was in a housing development around 119th St. South and Maple. Anyhow, a resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange-like in the development’s pond and when he went to investigate, it was a flathead catfish that 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 the ball and release the catfish".
Interesting dilemma.
Boyd :cool:
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