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Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 10-19-2012
What type of catfish?
I've caught these before even ate one but this is my biggest of this species,the meat is yellow if that helps..
Thanks
I'll upload the video later so you guys can check out the fight on 4lb test..
its been so long since catching one I nearly forgot how to hold these guys[blush]
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - bytebull - 10-19-2012
Looks like a Walking Catfish to me.
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - edwinangler - 10-19-2012
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It's a walking catfish!!!
In the United States it is an invasive species!
The walking catfish was imported to Florida, reportedly from Thailand, in the early 1960s for the aquarium trade.[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_catfish#cite_note-florida_museum-1"][/url] The first introductions apparently occurred in the mid-1960s when adultfish imported as brood stock escaped, either from a fish farm in northeastern Broward County or from a truck transporting brood fish between Dade and Broward counties.
In Thailand this fish is known as Pla Duk Dan . It is a common inexpensive food item, prepared in a variety of ways, being often offered by street vendors, especially barbecued or fried.
In Coastal Karnataka (India), it is called Mugudu and is considered a delicacy.
[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_catfish#cite_note-3"][/url]
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Re: [edwinangler] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 10-20-2012
Now I wish I'd kept it,got some curry paste,
I guess next time[
]ate one before not bad actually,but had yellow meat so I was like hmm,weird..
Heard about them but never seen them,but see lots of these guys,this is the biggest I seen..
O somethings wrong with the video,didn't upload?
check it out..
Next one maybe I'll take for a walk haha
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Re: [bytebull] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 10-20-2012
Sup byte..check out the video ,took me a while to grab this cat,hate holding these guys never been pricked yet lol
[#005000]I couldnt embed the vid,if somone can great!
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - bytebull - 10-26-2012
more kitty vids ... I love that white cat... so cool
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Re: [bytebull] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 10-26-2012
you mean snow white Kitty..[
]Ever seen snow in Florida,check it out,this is kitty after surgery and some pictures u haven't seen
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Re: [bytebull] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 11-29-2012
Thanks agan Mike,next time I'm gonna see just how well they walk!!
P.
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Re: [bytebull] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 02-21-2013
Mike what is this,my Nephew's friend caught this catfish he said..
Quote: these cats are like blue and with white spots kinda
check it out..
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - bytebull - 02-21-2013
Looks like a Brown Bullhead Catfish to me.
Brown Bullhead
Ictalaurus nebulosus marmoratus
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Re: [bytebull] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 02-25-2013
thanks Mike,I may have to fish for them myself.
they cauight it at the golf course lake haha
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - valley_sports - 03-03-2013
I'll go along with the walking catfish idea. I don't think it's a bullhead.
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Re: [valley_sports] Need help identifying catfish - bytebull - 03-04-2013
[quote valley_sports]I'll go along with the walking catfish idea. I don't think it's a bullhead.[/quote]
That was the original post .. walking catfish.. read three post up from yours paul posted another pic for a different fish.
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - rickblane - 04-03-2013
I learned something new
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Re: [Paulpro] Need help identifying catfish - Rickyrf - 04-03-2013
Walking catfish makes sense. I never heard the true name but in the mid-west we always called those mud dogs because they would crawl out of the water onto the mud. [bobhappy]
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Re: [Rickyrf] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 04-03-2013
Only heard about them,never looked them up so really had no idea wat they actually looked like..
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Re: [edwinangler] Need help identifying catfish - Paulpro - 05-16-2013
This may be the only species of catfish dat eats fruit?
saw them eating green fig berries,I think dats the type of berry anyway..Its the berry season here and some were dropping in a pond,saw a bunch and they were just munching them all down.Carp eat the figs and so do these Mayan cichlids..
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