Received this in a email today:

A guy who lives at Lake Conroe (50 miles north of Houston) saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate.
It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a basketball which became stuck in its mouth!!
The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. The guy tried numerous times to get the ball out, but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.
You probably wouldn't have believed this,
if you hadn't seen the following pictures...










Be kinder than necessary. Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

Interesting !!


wow ! a big fish too !

That poor creature

Well I guess it was lucky this time.

Danny...

hope everyone does the same thing. a small helping hand can make a big difference to our society.

Andrew

Thats kinda a silly fish. very helpful people I must say

Poor fish. And really kind people.
Thanks for sharing Student

wow.what a big fish.
A nice man saved that fish.
Thanks for sharing student.

Wow, this is an interesting article that I never thought I would hear about. Glad to hear that the fish was saved in the end.

I wonder what makes it wanted "swallow" a basketball

I wonder what will happen of that fish managed to SWALLOW the whole ball........

probably will float its whole life till someone eat/cook it.....

nice picture

WOW, that is interesting to say the least. That also makes me miss Lake Conroe and the Walden where I stayed a few years ago

Nice bait!

Dam that's what I call a lucky fish!

Danny...

hmmm im hungry now...


catfish... yum

i been barbel fishing last 2 days and that makes my 6 3/4 llb barbel look little

Aww its a huge fish, poor thing

Great pic's and so glad they took the time to help the fish.

Cool photo, I think he should play for the Lakers!!!!