07-19-2003, 02:52 PM
Hey, daymere. Now that I know you reside in Tennesee, I can speak intelligently. I also am retired but am having a tough time convincing myself of that fact.
Anyway, speaking of catfish, I was born and raised in Waco, TX, just about the time the Waco dam was being built and remember a newspaper account regarding a catfish that was founf while driving the pilings. It seems a diver went down to check the positioning and came flying back up, screaming something about a monster. The engineers diverted the water and found a huge catfish had been trapped by the driven pilings, couldn't move back or forward. What had scared the diver was when er looked and saw two big eyes looking at him, eyes spaced about three feet apart. After the water had drained they found a Bluecat, approximately twelve feet long and guessimated its age at over 100 years old, it had been a young one when the Alamo fell.
They tried shooting in the head to kill it, no luck. No bullet at that time would penetrate its skull, just too thick. They finally raised it from the river bottom with a crane and its weight was closely estimated at 1400 pounds. A picture was published in the Waco Tribune and I carried that pix with me for a very long time. The picture was of the diver standing up in its open mouth.
Kind of makes JAWS seem ouny, doesn't it? johnin colorado.
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Anyway, speaking of catfish, I was born and raised in Waco, TX, just about the time the Waco dam was being built and remember a newspaper account regarding a catfish that was founf while driving the pilings. It seems a diver went down to check the positioning and came flying back up, screaming something about a monster. The engineers diverted the water and found a huge catfish had been trapped by the driven pilings, couldn't move back or forward. What had scared the diver was when er looked and saw two big eyes looking at him, eyes spaced about three feet apart. After the water had drained they found a Bluecat, approximately twelve feet long and guessimated its age at over 100 years old, it had been a young one when the Alamo fell.
They tried shooting in the head to kill it, no luck. No bullet at that time would penetrate its skull, just too thick. They finally raised it from the river bottom with a crane and its weight was closely estimated at 1400 pounds. A picture was published in the Waco Tribune and I carried that pix with me for a very long time. The picture was of the diver standing up in its open mouth.
Kind of makes JAWS seem ouny, doesn't it? johnin colorado.
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