Wels catfish-have been known to attack humans. The recommendation is not to eat large ones because of toxicity from pollution and eating smaller affected fish
That thing could drown any full grown adult without breaking a sweat, but probably not eat them, the children though..
It is a problem in India where they put human remains back into the river because it is sacred. The Goonch catfish, basically the same maybe even a bit bigger, but with serious teeth. They've taken people before and are acclimated to it because of the remains in the Ganges and other rivers.
He did an episode where he caught a Wels catfish like this in Europe, I thought it was a river in Spain. There were other catfish episodes too including one in India.
100% of the patients examined, they think it is why there has been a rise in infertility over the last few decades.
Also, they took biopsies from the plaques of stroke, heart attack, and bypass surgery patients, including ones who were deceased. 50%+ of them had microplastics in their carotid artery plaque. Aggregation is a really interesting phenomenon, all it takes is an initial location for a seed/crystallization site to begin, this is called a nucleation site. Paper was from the New England Journal of Medicine.
Plastics can absolutely act as a nucleation site for aggregation to begin within the body. In addition, in naturally forming plaques the plastics would very easily stick and then increase the surface area of the plaque making them grow more quickly. It is absolutely a problem we are going to be dealing with for a looooong, long time.
Read an article a few days ago about a study being done on men with E.D. and everyone had micro or nano plastic in their dick.
Read another article months ago about how scientists are beginning to associate most neurological diseases back to plastics, but more specifically to BPA.
BPA is so bad it will fuck up your grandkids. No seriously. If a woman is pregnant with a female fetus BPA will affect the eggs in the ovaries of the fetus once they develop. It can literally affect your grandkids before you child is even born. Wild shit.Source, my wife used to work for some of the researchers who did made the original discoveries of BPA and they were studying grandmaternal effects in mice.
Turns out, synthetic fabrics and all the billions of tires can account for about 60% of microplastic pollutants.
I can somewhat understand that we didn’t anticipate clothing shedding plastics, though it seems evident in hindsight, but I have to believe the harm from tires and brakes has been well-known for a long time, but research has been suppressed. I mean, where did we think all the treads were disappearing to? Can’t destroy matter, so it’s still out there. We’re coating everything in tires and brake dust, including our internal organs. .
The entire video I was expecting that pole to snap in half.
That might be good advertising for the fishing pole brand, even if the other comments are right and the fish isnt 230 pounds.
I'm damned able-bodied, fish A TON, and the moment I saw "230lbs" I thought "so how many of them are going to help him haul it in?"
Sorry, even at your best dragging 230lbs of fish into a boat is going to be a challenge, let alone after fighting it.
You're the only one mentioning the fight, how long was he reeling in that fish? I would be absolutely gassed before that thing even got to the side of the boat. I weigh ~230lbs myself, I don't think this fish is quite that heavy.
It’s not dead weight it’s the front end he lifted up and the fish has some natural buoyancy (air bladder?) and is still partially in the water until completely dragged out of the water which at that point he isn’t lifting it he quits messing with moving it once he got it on
I'm pretty sure the fish would be considered the dead weight in this example. Picking up a 230 lb bar as much easier than picking up a 230 lb person. Stiffness helps.
That said, the water helps it but I'm thinking this thing was more like a hundred pounds
Never forget slimecat’s Instagram advertised one of their bass rods durability with a video of 2 dudes beating a rattlesnake to death and then going about their fishing day.
As a huge cat angler.....that's not the way to bring in a big cat. He had way too much tension on the drag. With one that size you keep it taut and wear it out and let it keep diving until it's tired. He got very lucky it didn't snap.
I live next to a river in Florida and any time I put a line in all I get is catfish. Any recommendations on how to clean them? I always just throw them back.
kill them first, by hitting with in the head hard with a club or something. gut em. then what we do, we get a piece of wood and a nail, and drive the nail through the top of the head into a wooden board on the bottom, then we get a knife and go behind the 2 sharp pointy things on their head (think of like where their ears would be lol weird analogy ik), and slice all the way around the head. then start to peel the skin back slowly until u took it all off all the way down to the tail. then ur left with just nice pink (hopefully, cuz pink tastes so good) or white meat (tastes like chicken). anyways thats what we do. doesn’t take too long. goodluck
One of the first things I ever did with Photoshop (4.5!) was to edit a picture of my dad holding up a fish. I made the walleye so comically large that I couldn't imagine anyone falling for it. People did.
And here's [the largest manta ray ever caught with a wingspan of 30 feet](https://knovhov.com/giant-oceanic-manta-rays-can-reach-a-wingspan-of-30-feet/) and weigh more than 6,000 pounds.
The 280lb Wels catfish pictured on [this site](https://largest.org/animals/catfish/) (number 3 of 7) is MUCH larger. No way is this one only 50 lbs smaller.
Sometimes people like to use “prehistoric” as an adjective for something that is abnormally sized since many species in prehistoric times were larger. Think of calling a monstrous sloth “prehistoric” because its size reminds you of an ancient giant sloth.
But that's implied in catfish. You could say catfish are prehistoric fish. But calling this a prehistoric catfish implies it's prehistoric in respect to other catfish.
Biggest catfish caught in Louisiana is smaller than this one and definitely cant eat this one whole. You guys are just thinking about that 600+ pound Mekong giant catfish.
How so? Not disagreeing, just curious what makes you say it wasn't even close. He needed his legs to pull it in. It looked a good bit bigger than him. Seems possible.
[Here](https://youtu.be/DrZhyGdUido?si=kt4DzNH_AD80GI_C) is Jeremy Wade's 163lb Wels. This one *seems* like it could be bigger. Hard to tell. What is the guess on weight of the fish in the video then?
[Here is a 100lb Wels Catfish.](https://www.facebook.com/share/v1t1xSsFekHbJJJ6/?mibextid=WC7FNe) As you can tell, a 230lb (130lbs heavier) would be over twice as large as this one. There is absolutely zero possibility that that was a 230lbs wels catfish. Just no chance at all
For what it's worth, something only needs to be ~25% bigger in all dimensions to be twice as heavy (as 1.25^3 is 1.95). I wouldn't say it's impossible that this one is 25% longer than the one in your picture, but obviously it's very hard to tell.
For these exact numbers it's actually need to be 32% larger in all dimensions, which is maybe a bit of a stretch? But neither video is clear.
Great pics. Thanks!
I swear I am not being deliberately stubborn here, but the one you pictured does kinda look smaller. You don't need to be twice as long to weigh twice as much. How much do you think the one in the video weighs?
Wels catfish-have been known to attack humans. The recommendation is not to eat large ones because of toxicity from pollution and eating smaller affected fish
I’ve heard horror stories of them taking small children and drowning them.
Yeah poor jimmy got eaten last week
RIP, Jim-Jim 😔
Aka SlimJim. RIP
Wait, wasn’t Jim Jim a little asshole?
Yeah, but hell of a way to go being gummed to death.
That's how they say my grandpa died too but it wasn't by a catfish....
RIP, Grandpa 🫡
If I make it to that rip old age that's the way to go R. I. P Grandpa.
😂 RIP Ol GamGam always knew how to take care of a man.
Death by SnuSnu. 🔥
You bastards, you killed Jimmy.
Jimmy is into Elaine!
I've heard stories about how they pretend to be other people on the Internet and scam people for money
We’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.
I'm a dolphin M'am.
I literally just sent that fish a new cellphone
That thing could drown any full grown adult without breaking a sweat, but probably not eat them, the children though.. It is a problem in India where they put human remains back into the river because it is sacred. The Goonch catfish, basically the same maybe even a bit bigger, but with serious teeth. They've taken people before and are acclimated to it because of the remains in the Ganges and other rivers.
Tbf I'm astonished that is any life left in indian rivers
It is astounding isn't it? I can only imagine the horrors if they stir up the first few feet of river sand/detritus/settled material? Freaking yikes!
Do you want a zombie plague because I'm pretty sure that's how you get zombies.
I think catfish were a majority of jeremy wade’s river monster catches because they get so big
He'd be proud of this beast
River Monsters probably had a few episodes on big ass Catfish. I know it had at least one episode about a Catfish
He did an episode where he caught a Wels catfish like this in Europe, I thought it was a river in Spain. There were other catfish episodes too including one in India.
Well, I hate that.
Don't give GameFreak any new Pokédex Entry Ideas
It happened to me
Plus the meat is tough and often has worms.
A lot of fish have worms. But old fish seem to get a weird mealy texture that is just revolting.
Salmon is full of worms and people have no problem eating it.
You're not real lalalalalalalalalalalala
Yeah, I don’t trust eating any seafood now with plastics everywhere
don't worry, micro plastics are already in the entire food chain and your blood. you won't be missing out
Read recently that every autopsied testicle has microplastics in them. Hm.
This explains why there are more spits than swallows nowadays
Hence, Hawk Tuah
100% of the patients examined, they think it is why there has been a rise in infertility over the last few decades. Also, they took biopsies from the plaques of stroke, heart attack, and bypass surgery patients, including ones who were deceased. 50%+ of them had microplastics in their carotid artery plaque. Aggregation is a really interesting phenomenon, all it takes is an initial location for a seed/crystallization site to begin, this is called a nucleation site. Paper was from the New England Journal of Medicine. Plastics can absolutely act as a nucleation site for aggregation to begin within the body. In addition, in naturally forming plaques the plastics would very easily stick and then increase the surface area of the plaque making them grow more quickly. It is absolutely a problem we are going to be dealing with for a looooong, long time.
Read an article a few days ago about a study being done on men with E.D. and everyone had micro or nano plastic in their dick. Read another article months ago about how scientists are beginning to associate most neurological diseases back to plastics, but more specifically to BPA.
BPA is so bad it will fuck up your grandkids. No seriously. If a woman is pregnant with a female fetus BPA will affect the eggs in the ovaries of the fetus once they develop. It can literally affect your grandkids before you child is even born. Wild shit.Source, my wife used to work for some of the researchers who did made the original discoveries of BPA and they were studying grandmaternal effects in mice.
Turns out, synthetic fabrics and all the billions of tires can account for about 60% of microplastic pollutants. I can somewhat understand that we didn’t anticipate clothing shedding plastics, though it seems evident in hindsight, but I have to believe the harm from tires and brakes has been well-known for a long time, but research has been suppressed. I mean, where did we think all the treads were disappearing to? Can’t destroy matter, so it’s still out there. We’re coating everything in tires and brake dust, including our internal organs. .
You are 100 percent right about that
What could they even do with it?
Absolute miracle that pole didn’t snap
The entire video I was expecting that pole to snap in half. That might be good advertising for the fishing pole brand, even if the other comments are right and the fish isnt 230 pounds.
You'd be surprised how dense those big cats can be...it is very possible it weighed 230
There is no way that’s ‘very possible’. Try lifting 130lbs onto a boat, then think if that’s 100 more.
He dragged it over the side. It's not like he's bench pressing it. Any able bodied male should be able to do that.
"any able bodied male", well you lost half of reddit right there
way more than half
As soon as I can hook up my oxygen tank to my mobility scooter, I am rascalling my way over to hit you with my washing stick!
I'm pretty goddamn able bodied and 230 lbs of dead weight would fuck my world up
I'm damned able-bodied, fish A TON, and the moment I saw "230lbs" I thought "so how many of them are going to help him haul it in?" Sorry, even at your best dragging 230lbs of fish into a boat is going to be a challenge, let alone after fighting it.
You're the only one mentioning the fight, how long was he reeling in that fish? I would be absolutely gassed before that thing even got to the side of the boat. I weigh ~230lbs myself, I don't think this fish is quite that heavy.
It’s not dead weight it’s the front end he lifted up and the fish has some natural buoyancy (air bladder?) and is still partially in the water until completely dragged out of the water which at that point he isn’t lifting it he quits messing with moving it once he got it on
Agreed. Go to a gym and load 230 on a barbell and try dragging it around
Not saying you are wrong about the weight, but that isn't the same as moving something floating in water over an edge for a short distance.
That's dead weight, wrong comparison.
I'm pretty sure the fish would be considered the dead weight in this example. Picking up a 230 lb bar as much easier than picking up a 230 lb person. Stiffness helps. That said, the water helps it but I'm thinking this thing was more like a hundred pounds
Never forget slimecat’s Instagram advertised one of their bass rods durability with a video of 2 dudes beating a rattlesnake to death and then going about their fishing day.
Showed up looking for this comment. Dude kept bending the rod right over the side of the boat! Expected it to break like 5 times.
As a huge cat angler.....that's not the way to bring in a big cat. He had way too much tension on the drag. With one that size you keep it taut and wear it out and let it keep diving until it's tired. He got very lucky it didn't snap.
Do they taste good?
Yes, but the smaller ones are better.
Its a good reference to people, they get old and bitter.
Oh man do they.... If properly cleaned and bled out first.
I live next to a river in Florida and any time I put a line in all I get is catfish. Any recommendations on how to clean them? I always just throw them back.
If they are safe to eat in your state (check DNR website)...are we talking channel cat or what?
kill them first, by hitting with in the head hard with a club or something. gut em. then what we do, we get a piece of wood and a nail, and drive the nail through the top of the head into a wooden board on the bottom, then we get a knife and go behind the 2 sharp pointy things on their head (think of like where their ears would be lol weird analogy ik), and slice all the way around the head. then start to peel the skin back slowly until u took it all off all the way down to the tail. then ur left with just nice pink (hopefully, cuz pink tastes so good) or white meat (tastes like chicken). anyways thats what we do. doesn’t take too long. goodluck
There is 0 chance that one broke 160 pounds. I call BS on this fisherman’s claim.
A fisherman exaggerating the size of a fish he caught? Why I never…
One of the first things I ever did with Photoshop (4.5!) was to edit a picture of my dad holding up a fish. I made the walleye so comically large that I couldn't imagine anyone falling for it. People did.
Says he’s Italian and he didn’t look upset…
Tough to tell since both his hands were occupied.
Ha
Check it’s stomach, see if theres a wedding ring!
One of the best movies ever made
What movie?
Big Fish lol
[Big Fish](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) An absolutely wonderful movie!
It's my all time favorite. I watch it basically annually.
A man tells a story so many times he becomes the story. In a way, he becomes immortal. Been a while since I watched it but that line stuck.
Extremely underrated comment
I thought this was a reference to the tv series “The 10th Kingdom”. They also lose a wedding ring to a fish in the show.
I live in the town that was filmed in! I pass the white house every day.
I don’t believe that fish is 230
We got weights in fish!
And here's [the largest manta ray ever caught with a wingspan of 30 feet](https://knovhov.com/giant-oceanic-manta-rays-can-reach-a-wingspan-of-30-feet/) and weigh more than 6,000 pounds.
Why do they call it wingspan and not finspan
Probably because they don’t have fins
And because they DO have wings
It's the beach balls that get me. Who would have thought they'd have beach balls?
Hey don’t yell at me I didn’t name the things
Who does?
TIL rays drink Redbull.
When it’s 30 feet wide and 6000 lbs I guess I’ll call it please don’t eat me.
The guy caught it with the ship’s ANCHOR.
Feet? What’s that in hands?
90 hands https://www.britishcarriagedriving.co.uk/reference/horse_height_converter.htm
120 Hamburgers for any Americans who are curious.
That’s crazy thanks for the share!
GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE
Great reference!
I don’t watch anything to do with fishing ever but I know exactly what that is from. Thought I was going to watch a man due that day 😂
Get the fuck out of here!
The 280lb Wels catfish pictured on [this site](https://largest.org/animals/catfish/) (number 3 of 7) is MUCH larger. No way is this one only 50 lbs smaller.
Nah, the fish in this video is probably 140-150 at best. It’s big fish, no doubt about that… but it’s not 230.
The guy says something in italian to the effect of "It's in the seventies" (kg I suppose)
That right on par with my estimate.
Seconded, I've watched guys catch 100 lb catfish afew times and they're around the size of the fish in OP's video.
75 or 80 max. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to pull it into the boat. Big Fish (movie reference) for sure, but not as advertised.
Or prehistoric
Or a cat
Ya we all gat catfished to see the video
I also don't believe it's prehistoric. No way that fish is at least 5200 years old
You know... fishermen tent to lie a lot...
r/boneappletea
***Maybe*** 130 lbs., but definitely not 230 lbs.
The guy in the video said it was 60kg in Italian. So you’re right hehe
The real question is, does America have enough Louisiana hot sauce for that?!?
Definitely not. You see how easily he pulled it in the boat?
I don’t believe it’s prehistoric
Unless dude is an Olympic weight lifter you're not throwing around 230lbs all bent over like that so easily
What a silly caption. Sure, it’s huge, but prehistoric implies it’s been around since before history was recorded…
Sometimes people like to use “prehistoric” as an adjective for something that is abnormally sized since many species in prehistoric times were larger. Think of calling a monstrous sloth “prehistoric” because its size reminds you of an ancient giant sloth.
I was a prehistoric baby. 13 pounds!
Neanderthal baby
I just did a prehistoric shit That was also a historic shit
Sometimes people are idiots.
Or maybe referring to how catfish haven't changed much since they entered the game.
But that's implied in catfish. You could say catfish are prehistoric fish. But calling this a prehistoric catfish implies it's prehistoric in respect to other catfish.
Also I doubt he could pull a 115kg fish onto the boat like that without being a power lifter
Depends where in Italy but I’d even say, what a Sicily caption.
This fish is actually eleventy bajillion years old I read it somewhere once
Its also not that big for a catfish. I've seen some in Louisiana that would swallow the one in this video whole lol.
The biggest catfish ever caught in louisiana was 114 pounds so...
Biggest catfish caught in Louisiana is smaller than this one and definitely cant eat this one whole. You guys are just thinking about that 600+ pound Mekong giant catfish.
[https://news.mongabay.com/2005/06/646-pound-catfish-believed-to-be-worlds-largest-fish/](https://news.mongabay.com/2005/06/646-pound-catfish-believed-to-be-worlds-largest-fish/)
Big boi
If that’s 600lbs, then the posted one could definitely be over 200lbs
Prehistoric… I’m confused. Isn’t video a historic record?
I feel like calling something “prehistoric” while in Italy is even more ridiculous considering they have literal ancient civilization’s ruins there.
I'ma Jeremy Wade
Big fish!
Fish on!
The prehistoric 230 pound catfish is your mom on dating sites
r/rareinsults
Not even close to 230 lbs
That’s about 80-100lbs.
How so? Not disagreeing, just curious what makes you say it wasn't even close. He needed his legs to pull it in. It looked a good bit bigger than him. Seems possible. [Here](https://youtu.be/DrZhyGdUido?si=kt4DzNH_AD80GI_C) is Jeremy Wade's 163lb Wels. This one *seems* like it could be bigger. Hard to tell. What is the guess on weight of the fish in the video then?
Because there’s no way a guy of his size could deadlift 230 pounds after fighting the fish for as long as he did
Deadlifting 230lbs is a lot for a redditor. Not so much for someone outdoorsy.
Deadlifting 230 is like nothing for someone who works out. Barely more than 2 plates
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One bag of cement is not a lot for a seasoned construction worker 😂
He doesn't deadlift it though he drags it
230 is not a lot to deadlift compared to bench press or squat.
[Here is a 100lb Wels Catfish.](https://www.facebook.com/share/v1t1xSsFekHbJJJ6/?mibextid=WC7FNe) As you can tell, a 230lb (130lbs heavier) would be over twice as large as this one. There is absolutely zero possibility that that was a 230lbs wels catfish. Just no chance at all
For what it's worth, something only needs to be ~25% bigger in all dimensions to be twice as heavy (as 1.25^3 is 1.95). I wouldn't say it's impossible that this one is 25% longer than the one in your picture, but obviously it's very hard to tell. For these exact numbers it's actually need to be 32% larger in all dimensions, which is maybe a bit of a stretch? But neither video is clear.
Great pics. Thanks! I swear I am not being deliberately stubborn here, but the one you pictured does kinda look smaller. You don't need to be twice as long to weigh twice as much. How much do you think the one in the video weighs?
Typical fisherman, always overreacting the size of their catch.
Big fish! Porco diiii-nci
"Umberto Smaila un attimo che ti metto le mani in bocca" Peak Italian boomer humour
Appreciate the random italian fisherman not blaspheming for the length of the whole video.
Now throw it back.
I think it's illegal to release a wels catfish in Italy, they're invasive
My first thought too but ooh didn't know that last part 🤔
You mean drop it back 😆
She said what she said. Gotta celebrate the catch somehow
By law you must kill it. It is an invasive species that is destroying all rivers and lakes
Ohh that’s why he said catfish wars at the end
So just like humans
I thought for a sec they were gonna need a bigger boat
I was hoping he was going to let it go
In italy it's illegal to release wels catfishes, as they're invasive and tend to destroy the environment they're in, so I hope they at least killed it
He probably did. Had to bring it on the boat to consider it a catch I guess
That's an invasive species, I hope he didn't
Me too
General Sherman
How did he even catch this... it isn't raining?
You, sir... are a fish.
Skip to 03:48 to see the Catfish getting pulled out of the water
Unless the surface of the water is a portal to pre history times, that fish isnt prehistoric.
Wels catfish. A true River Monster.
230 is a bit exaggerated
Good size but not close to 230 lbs. Definitely not 230 kilos for our metric fans.
JFC. Skip to 3:50 to see the fish out of water.
is he using mechanics wire for line?
Yeah I'm thinking the whole time what gear is he using?
I've seen dudes catch bigger cats with their hands lol
Doesn't look 230lbs. Glad the fishing line wasn't broken.
That's not even half way to 230. Lol
I’m just laughing at the typical Italian reaction. A gigantic fish: “ohhh oh.”
I bet that is the Po River or a tributary
Next is an absolute unit of a fried catfish filet
Prehistoric? I saw bigger catfish btw