Giant Catfish

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CATFISH DU JOUR  -  Oct 31, 2008
Bangkok Post,But the giant catfish stands out among them all, given its reputation as the world's largest freshwater fish. Some of them weigh hundreds of kilogrammes.

The Sea Inside  -  Nov 14, 2008
New York Times,At night you can swim with the giant catfish, measuring up to eight feet long, which ascend to the surface from their deep-water lairs.

Giant prehistoric fish rebounding in Canada  -  Nov 14, 2008
Kazinform,..."The white sturgeon seems to have avoided the fate of species like the Chinese paddlefish of the Yangtze River and the critically endangered giant catfish

Steve lands Ebro giant  -  Oct 24, 2008
Southport Visiter,Top angler this week, has to go to Steve Halsall, from Southport, who travelled on his own to Spain and the great River Ebro in search of giant catfish.

National Geographic News Writer Wins Top Science Award  -  Nov 12, 2008
National Geographic,..."We tend to think of pandas and tigers and blue whales and baby seals … it's very difficult to think of a giant catfish in those same terms,

Gusts up to 49 mph topples trees, fish  -  Oct 27, 2008
Fremont Tribune,Winds also ripped off part of the awning at Family Dollar, 1440 N. Bell St., and toppled a giant catfish over in downtown Fremont.

Outdoor Library: You'll be hooked by these fish tales ...  -  Nov 13, 2008
Sacramento Bee,Other stories recall perils of different sorts – seasickness, extreme weather, close encounters with giant catfish and sharks, life on a factory trawler,

Tuesday's Highlights  -  Oct 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Monster Fish of the Mekong: Zeb Hogan goes to Southeast Asia in search of a giant catfish (6 and 9 pm Nat Geo). Scream 2008: This award show salutes the men

Arlington-based Asian grocery company branches out with fresh ...  -  Oct 26, 2008
Fort Worth Star Telegram,MAXWELL The seafood counter at the Saigon Taipei grocery store in Arlington is surrounded by aquariums full of shrimp, striped bass and giant catfish.

Regional arts and entertainment events  -  Nov 9, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,...with Okie Noodling 2, Bradley Beesley's second sensational documentary about barehanded divers' pursuit of giant catfish in backwoods rivers (7 pm,

Cribsheet: First Person Arts Festival 2008  -  Nov 12, 2008
Philebrity.com,Not sure how exactly this fits into First Person’s program of largely local storytelling, but hell, we’ll watch a bunch of hicks wrestle giant catfish any

The Big Easy it ain't  -  Aug 30, 2008
Globe and Mail,By Amanda Boyden This novel is a giant catfish. Bear with me: Being a giant catfish is better than you might think. Most writers will, at some point in

Posted By RICK GAMBLE  -  Sep 20, 2008
Brantford Expositor,No sooner had the grandfather taken it when he got a giant catfish on the line. Hayes landed the huge specimen which was later certified by the Wildlife

'The Children' pulls in 4.7m on ITV1  -  Sep 9, 2008
Brand Republic,...saw the actor heading to the Tennessee river in the Deep South of the US to try catfish grabbling, which involves catching giant catfish without rods.

The Lucky 77  -  Sep 13, 2008
Bend Bulletin (subscription),...documentary “Okie Noodling 2�? gives new meaning to catch and release, chronicling the adventures of Oklahoman fishermen who catch giant catfish by hand.

Region has share of urban legends  -  Sep 4, 2008
Gadsden Times (subscription),Other legends tell of giant catfish, many times larger than the world records, that were seen during the construction of the dams on the Coosa River.

Gay staffers ready new academy  -  Sep 3, 2008
Bay Area Reporter,Giant catfish, vegetarian piranhas, poison dart frogs, and fruit-eating bats, along with other birds, animals, and insects, will call the dome home.

Robson Green reveals James Bond ambition  -  Aug 31, 2008
Sunday Sun,Along the way he hunted all manner of slippery characters including a giant catfish, a prized blue marlin, and a hammerhead shark.

Taking A River Journey and Ocean Voyage at the Tennessee Aquarium  -  Aug 30, 2008
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News,Visitors can explore two living forests under glass, and get face-to-face with giant catfish, prehistoric sturgeon and American alligators.

'Giant catfish' another legend  -  Aug 10, 2008
Roanoke Times,A: This question intrigued me because somewhere deep in my memory I think I found the same giant catfish story -- but this one was from Claytor Lake.

Scouring Thailand rivers for giant stingrays  -  Jul 19, 2008
Los Angeles Times,If he can confirm them, his find could eclipse the world record now held by the Mekong giant catfish: a 646-pound specimen caught in 2005 in Thailand.

This angler's specialty? Very big fish  -  Aug 2, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,Former City Lakes fisheries biologist Larry Bottroff was amazed that such a giant catfish was landed on 10-pound Berkley Vanish line.

Through The Lens; Afternoon With Sam  -  Aug 5, 2008
Wetzel Chronicle,After a while he asked if I had ever heard of the story of three toed Jake and the giant catfish? I wiggled my toes into the cool depths of the sand and

What a Drag  -  Aug 6, 2008
CMT.com,But not one of them pulled out a giant catfish with her bare hands. • And how come whenever I go visit my friends’ houses, none of them have baboons,

Giant freshwater stingray is just a tiddler  -  Jul 21, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,The current world record is held by the Mekong giant catfish and Mr Hogan aims to document and protect freshwater giants that weigh at least 200lb (91kg) or

Live bait a local convenience  -  Jul 16, 2008
Long Beach Press-Telegram,The lake will have a special stocking of giant catfish. Also, there is a special award of $1000 for any angler who breaks the lake record of a catfish over

It’s critter craziness in the lake!  -  Aug 7, 2008
Gainesville Times,Whether there is a giant catfish swimming deep in the lake, nobody knows for sure. But we can confirm the existence of a resident alligator, an osprey and

Long-time business will close its doors  -  Jul 18, 2008
Wetumpka Herald,It was located just across the Montgomery County line on US Highway 231, fronted by a sign with a neon cowboy who waved his hat while riding a giant catfish

20 wetlands shortlisted in 27 provinces  -  Aug 5, 2008
Bangkok Post,Other prime wetlands named by the WWF include Chiang Rai-Nong Lom on the Mekong river bank, which is a breeding ground of the giant catfish, and Klong

ON THE QUEST FOR MEGAFISH IN THE MEKONG  -  Jul 21, 2008
Pattaya Daily News,He‘s basically hoping to best the world record currently held by the Mekong giant catfish: a 646-pounder caught in Thailand, in 2005.

Linkz of the Week: Joe DiMaggio, Darius Miles, and Benchpressing a ...  -  Jul 21, 2008
Yardbarker,The Linkz of the Week are your weekly walk through the world of sportswriting. Have a link? Think it's the best thing ever? No? Don't be so hard on yourself

Reading, writing on DVD  -  Aug 9, 2008
Laconia Citizen,Kate Rock told the story of a sailing ship with dolphins and "giant catfish 100 feet long." Delia Cormier's recorded story was about a boy and tree and

Sea Scouts help clean up marina  -  Jul 27, 2008
The Morning Journal,His colleagues were in awe when they ran over to see the giant catfish he caught. But Felici, 14, of Avon Lake, wasn't fishing, and the catfish wasn't alive

Five takes fishing to the extreme  -  Aug 7, 2008
Broadcastnow,In Europe, he fishes at the mouth of the Ebro River, hunting a giant catfish. At sea in the Azores, he puts all his new-found skills to the test in an

Ramblings: Class Room To Board Room  -  Aug 4, 2008
thejournal-news.net,Remember the picture of the giant catfish Adam Fath held after it was pulled from the water lines at the old water plant? When I asked if I could have the

Cathy Hamilton: Beauty treatment fishy  -  Jul 30, 2008
Craig Daily Press,...shuddering and shrieking every time something slimy brushed my legs, he added, “Course, there are those giant catfish over by Bagnell Dam.

Matchman banned after website comments  -  Jul 29, 2008
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press,On the big fish scene, seven giant catfish were winched ashore from the Yew Tree Lake at Waveney Valley where Lowestoft expert Adrian Dorling weighed in

"Monster" Lake's rare giants lure anglers, biologists  -  Jul 15, 2008
Kazinform,Lake Monster is now a haven for the Mekong giant catfish, a Southeast Asian beast that has seen its wild population drop by about 95 percent over the past

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Charles Johnson: Giant catfish plentiful in North Alabama, if you ...  -  Apr 19, 2008
Anniston Star (subscription),Many tales and folklore stories have been concocted over the years about giant catfish in the Coosa and Tennessee Rivers. Anglers have told of divers

Giant Catfish at Risk in Asia  -  Apr 8, 2008
National Geographic,April 8, 2008—Children pose with a Mekong giant catfish caught at Khone Falls in Laos, near the border with Cambodia, in August last year.

Laos dam could cause extinction of worlds largest catfish  -  Apr 8, 2008
Thaindian.com,Washington, April 9 (ANI): The construction of a large hydroelectric dam in Laos might endanger the existence of the Mekong giant catfish,

World's Largest Catfish Species Threatened by Dam  -  Apr 8, 2008
National Geographic,One of those migratory fish is the critically endangered Mekong giant catfish, which holds the record as the largest freshwater fish ever caught.

Larry Dahlberg is at home on camera, and on water  -  Apr 3, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),...a couple of years ago and one day I was looking at a map and decided to run upriver to a spot that looked like it might hold giant catfish,'' he said.

I caught a fish bigger than me... honestly!  -  Apr 11, 2008
Liverpool Echo,Fisherman Wayne Halsall spent 90 minutes in a battle of wits with this giant catfish on the banks of a Spanish river. The 200lb fish was reeled in by the

Fishing forecast  -  Apr 16, 2008
Florida Times-Union,Dunn's Creek has continued to give up giant catfish, lots of bream and some speckled perch. Area lakes (Lochloosa, Orange, Santa Fe): The bass bite on Lake

A Hunter with Heart Releases Funny New Book  -  Apr 23, 2008
PR Web (press release),From giant catfish, to rattlesnakes, to the tiniest of demons with "teeth of a great white shark, saliva that is pure hydrochloric acid, and feet that are

Fishing Notebooks: Making the Right Choice  -  Apr 22, 2008
American Chronicle,Instead of trying to remember where exactly on Lake Texoma you caught that giant catfish and which lures you used to do so, you can keep track of

They were smokin'  -  Apr 6, 2008
Charlotte Observer,Now, the James is gaining stature rapidly as a river where anglers can catch giant catfish. "I found out about the promise of the James through a Web site,

Fishermen who want to remember every detail of their latest ...  -  Apr 21, 2008
PR Web (press release),..."Are you trying to remember exactly where on Lake Texoma you caught that giant catfish?" said Tony Brobst, president of the Camo Shop

The Damming of the Mekong  -  Apr 16, 2008
Awearness,Along with stingray, the list includes the Mekong Giant Catfish (critically endangered) and Irrawaddy Dolphin (critically endangered).

The Mekong: charting a sustainable future  -  Mar 28, 2008
Bangkok Post,...the highest biodiversity in Asia, and home to at least 1300 species of fish including the Mekong giant catfish, the largest freshwater fish on Earth.

// 411 Games Fact or Fiction: The Gears of War Sequel, Car Damage ...  -  Apr 13, 2008
411mania.com,After some research, we found out that it was a giant catfish that was troubling everyone. If we can stop it without hurting ourselves, we'll be back next

GMS Summit to Hear Burmese PM’s Views on Environment Management  -  Mar 27, 2008
The Irrawaddy News Magazine,...planned hydroelectric dams in the GMS would displace up to 75000 people and threaten hundreds of fish species—notably the giant catfish—with extinction.

Fisherman's big catch draws some serious scrutiny Tony Garitta  -  22 Feb 2008
Lexington Dispatch,Wright got a strike and buried the hook in what he thought was a giant catfish. "The fish kept taking line, and when I gained line back, the fish would take

New Fresh Water Aquarium at Underwater World Park.  -  Jan 28, 2008
Pattaya City News Online,The Park has just taken delivery of a Mekong Giant Catfish which is the feature species for their new Fresh Water Aquarium which is the largest in Asia.

Ice shanties, fish retreat  -  Feb 11, 2008
Waukegan News Sun,Around 11 am, he came back to the trailer with another giant catfish, put it before the judges and the measurement was read: 36-and-a-quarter inches.

Tunica transformed  -  Jan 28, 2008
Myrtle Beach Sun News,In the display, giant catfish and sunken logs float by as you view out the three portholes, heading to the wreck of the Neptune in search of its cargo of

Watching bad television guilt-free  -  Feb 6, 2008
Mineral Wells Index,...all day and shouting at a TV at night when I could be interviewing people who’ve seen dog boys, ape men, giant catfish, UFOs, ghosts and swamp beasts.

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