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Siluris gladius?
Posted: 13 Apr 2005, 14:28
by worton[pl]
Posted: 13 Apr 2005, 23:45
by worton[pl]
hmm something is broken I will repair links tomorrow :( sorry this photos are really amazing :).
wow
Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 04:09
by neolamp
that first one is almost hard to beleive
Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 07:27
by CEfire
Was this caught in a net or on a line or dare I say it by NOODLING?????
Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 08:12
by Mike_Noren
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.
Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 09:56
by sidguppy
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
Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 18:35
by racoll
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.
Posted: 03 Mar 2006, 19:00
by featherback
without getting into the fishing/moral debate, here's a pic of a big "gold":
