Guys,
I have a great fishing story and I can't believe i've forgotten to share it. A month or two ago I was up at the conowingo dam walleye fishing. After some time an older guys tells me that catfish have been caught out of the area as big as picnic tables. I'm thinking, "sure, I've heard these kinds of stories before." He then goes on to tell me that years ago his buddy was a diver who was searching for a missing person above the dam and when he was down there he said there were catfish as big as people. The divers were all afraid to go down. Ok, so he's got some more evidence, but still nothing more than urban legend, right?
As time goes on that day, I happen to meet another older guy (I talk to a lot of fisherman :-) ) who was telling me about the old days of the dam and how you could fish on the catwalk. He also said that you weren't allowed to fish above the dam, but sometimes he broke the rules. He claimed that he'd caught an 80 lb and 100 lb catfish out of there. He didn't think anything of it until he saw that the record catfish had just been caught out of the potomac. He decided that he'd go back above the dam and try to catch the monster cat. He never did, but he did get arrested for doing so and had to appear in court. He explained to the judge that he was fishing for this monster and he happened to show the judge the pics, at which the judge was in shock and he got off the hook somehow, no pun intended. I'm not sure how much of this is substantiated, but the guy said he had the pics in his van. I couldn't turn this down. I would say that if the cat at bass pro is 60 lbs, the one he showed me is 80 lbs. I had to take a picture of the guy holding his pictures...so here it is, decide for yourselves. All I have to figure out now is how to convince the guards to let me fish there for a few hours :-) He also happened to have a pic of a massive blue gill that he'd caught.
Has anyone heard of similar stories?
I have a great fishing story and I can't believe i've forgotten to share it. A month or two ago I was up at the conowingo dam walleye fishing. After some time an older guys tells me that catfish have been caught out of the area as big as picnic tables. I'm thinking, "sure, I've heard these kinds of stories before." He then goes on to tell me that years ago his buddy was a diver who was searching for a missing person above the dam and when he was down there he said there were catfish as big as people. The divers were all afraid to go down. Ok, so he's got some more evidence, but still nothing more than urban legend, right?
As time goes on that day, I happen to meet another older guy (I talk to a lot of fisherman :-) ) who was telling me about the old days of the dam and how you could fish on the catwalk. He also said that you weren't allowed to fish above the dam, but sometimes he broke the rules. He claimed that he'd caught an 80 lb and 100 lb catfish out of there. He didn't think anything of it until he saw that the record catfish had just been caught out of the potomac. He decided that he'd go back above the dam and try to catch the monster cat. He never did, but he did get arrested for doing so and had to appear in court. He explained to the judge that he was fishing for this monster and he happened to show the judge the pics, at which the judge was in shock and he got off the hook somehow, no pun intended. I'm not sure how much of this is substantiated, but the guy said he had the pics in his van. I couldn't turn this down. I would say that if the cat at bass pro is 60 lbs, the one he showed me is 80 lbs. I had to take a picture of the guy holding his pictures...so here it is, decide for yourselves. All I have to figure out now is how to convince the guards to let me fish there for a few hours :-) He also happened to have a pic of a massive blue gill that he'd caught.
Has anyone heard of similar stories?
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