Flathead cat caught eating a blue cat!

[SpurHunter]

Got my new issue of AON, Albama Outdoor News today. There is a pic and article of a guyfishing in Walker County lake, in Jasper. He caught/snagged, not really clear on that part, a 55.41lb (certified) flathead cat, with a 12 lb blue cat stuck in its mouth head-first!! The DCNR biologist verified the weight of the flattie. It was realeased into the Warrior River a couple days later after living in one of the baitshops tanks while waiting for the certification. UNREAL!

 

[AThornton]

Big one in Walker Co.:

Sumiton's John Beal probably would have agreed with Addison prior to last Sunday. What he saw at Walker County Lake in Jasper changed his mind.

Beal was fishing at daylight Sunday when he spotted what he first thought was a log. It turned out to be an unusually large flathead catfish with a smaller blue catfish lodged in its mouth.

Beal, fishing by himself, snagged the struggling catfish with a hook as it slowly swam by. He then wrestled with the fish and dragged it ashore.

The fish was reported to the department of conservation on Monday and biologists were told that the flathead catfish likely weighed 150 pounds. A fisheries biologist was dispatched to Walker County Lake. The fish was weighed on certified scales and came in at 55 pounds. The fish taken from its mouth weighed 12 pounds.

The big catfish is still alive in a tank at Walker County Lake.

"I say definitely this fish could have gotten a child's head in its mouth and possibly a grown man's head," Beal said. "We measured, and it had the other fish 14 inches down its throat.

"It was an incredible sight."

 

[dmorgan]

id like to see tthem pics....

 

[SpurHunter]

Here is the best I can do on the pic guys.

 

[captXtreme]

<font size="2">Spur!! gather the Poles start the engine it's time to GOOOO!!! LOL how would you like to run up on something like that, thanks bro for the pics.</font></p>

 

[shsimons]

I tried eating a whole 12 lb blue once, it didn't work for me either

 

[sprestwood]

Yeah, boney skull and sharp spines definatly means trouble. And you have no idea where that slimey skin has been.

 

[captXtreme]

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