This year, I’m just taking it as it comes. I’ve no set plans for characters or anything, just doing whatever comes to mind that I think answers the prompt strongest. I think I really burned myself out last year making to many promises to myself, but at the same time I wasn’t quite in a good place then. I just want to focus on having fun more than anything this time round. I think I lost that last September.
@TexasUberAlles
Rather a late response, but talking big fish and dams I’ve also been told that about a local dam here in Pennsylvania. Divers still refuse to go swimming down near it. The few who did swore they saw Northern Pike 5’-6’ long swimming around and got back out of the water, fast.
@Ardashir
The largest ever independently verified in the US was 123lbs, but they’ve been known to get upwards of 300lbs in the big African rivers and 400lbs in the Amazon and its tributaries. I’ve seen extremely sturdy fishing poles broken by the behemoths that live below dams in the US, I would not at all be surprised if basic beeyatch river cats could get over 200lbs here.
@Ardashir
The only surprising part is that a body was recovered; a catfish will literally eat anything it can fit in its mouth, and once they get that size they can and will eat humans.
@TexasUberAlles
This reminds me of an account of some Polish fisherman who apparently caught a 200-300 lb catfish (and no, this isn’t a joke). He tried pulling it in, and his friends recorded his last words right before the fish dragged him under to be, “I’ve got him now!” His body was found along the river three days later.
Rather a late response, but talking big fish and dams I’ve also been told that about a local dam here in Pennsylvania. Divers still refuse to go swimming down near it. The few who did swore they saw Northern Pike 5’-6’ long swimming around and got back out of the water, fast.
The largest ever independently verified in the US was 123lbs, but they’ve been known to get upwards of 300lbs in the big African rivers and 400lbs in the Amazon and its tributaries. I’ve seen extremely sturdy fishing poles broken by the behemoths that live below dams in the US, I would not at all be surprised if basic beeyatch river cats could get over 200lbs here.
Well, they didn’t say how much of the body was recovered. I assume enough to be identified.
I also had my doubts about the story. I didn’t think catfish got to weigh 300 pounds.
The only surprising part is that a body was recovered; a catfish will literally eat anything it can fit in its mouth, and once they get that size they can and will eat humans.
This reminds me of an account of some Polish fisherman who apparently caught a 200-300 lb catfish (and no, this isn’t a joke). He tried pulling it in, and his friends recorded his last words right before the fish dragged him under to be, “I’ve got him now!” His body was found along the river three days later.
I didn’t see that when I posted. Sorry for inadvertently stealing your joke and being less clever about it than you were.
@Magic Nova
I see what you did there
A tri-horned bunyip.
Edited
“Something’s biting!”
….. Wut?
Like father like daughter I guess.
Maybe it’s FLEX TAPE!