Siluris gladius?

worton[pl] · Post by **worton[pl]** » 13 Apr 2005, 14:28

<a href="http://www.fishing.pl/imagecatalogue/im ... /192/">The big one</a>

<a href="http://www.fishing.pl/imagecatalogue/im ... 183/">Gold one</a>

<a href="http://www.fishing.pl/imagecatalogue/im ... 183/">Gold head view</a>

interesting :) I would like to see 2.5m long gold catfish.

worton[pl] · Post by **worton[pl]** » 13 Apr 2005, 23:45

hmm something is broken I will repair links tomorrow :( sorry this photos are really amazing :).

neolamp · Post by **neolamp** » 03 Mar 2006, 04:09

that first one is almost hard to beleive

CEfire · Post by **CEfire** » 03 Mar 2006, 07:27

Was this caught in a net or on a line or dare I say it by NOODLING?????

Mike_Noren · Post by **Mike_Noren** » 03 Mar 2006, 08:12

It's pictures of Silurus glanis, Wels, to the best of my knowledge the biggest catfish in the world.
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/sp ... ame=glanis

Really large specimens are increasingly rare.

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 03 Mar 2006, 09:56

If I look at the first pic of the big one I remember two things right away:
-why I hate "sport fishing", and view it as hunting/killing, not a "sport".
-why it completely dazzles me that so many people think "sportfishing" is OK, it's sport; but bullfighting (the deadly kind, in the corrida) is wrong...IMO it's exactly the same thing, just a different animal!

GRRRRRR

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 03 Mar 2006, 18:35

IMO it's exactly the same thing

Not quite, in the UK we always return inedible "coarse" fish to the water alive. I've been fishing many years, and these fish live long healthy lives, that are inconvenienced once in a while by an undignified spell on land.

The small hole in their mouth heals within days, and while the fish are stressed during their fifteen minute ordeal, I am sure they are not traumatised for life by it.

Anglers do a great deal of good in this country fighting for clean, pollution free waterways. See this link....

http://www.a-c-a.org/index.html

I think the fish on balance would put up with being caught every so often given the choice.

Here's yours truly with the afformentioned siluriforme caught from the Ebro in Catalonia.

featherback · Post by **featherback** » 03 Mar 2006, 19:00

without getting into the fishing/moral debate, here's a pic of a big "gold":

Siluris gladius?

Siluris gladius?

wow