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This Big One Didn't Get Away

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Thai Fishermen Net 646-Pound Catfish

By DANIEL LOVERING, Associated Press WriterThu Jun 30, 5:28 PM ET

This big one did not get away. Thai fishermen netted a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever caught in Thailand, a researcher said Thursday.

The nearly 9-foot-long Mekong giant catfish was landed May 1 by villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote district in northern Thailand, and weighed by Thai fisheries department officials, said Zeb Hogan, who leads an international project to locate and study the world's largest freshwater fish species.

He confirmed it was the heaviest fish on record since Thailand started keeping such statistics in 1981.

The fishermen had hoped to sell the fish to environmental groups, which planned to release it to spawn upriver, but it died before it could be handed over and then was chopped up and sold in pieces to villagers as food.

Hogan, whose work is funded by the World Wildlife Fund and the National Geographic Society, said he is planning to write a paper about the catch for a scientific journal.

"That's the best way to document this kind of thing," he told The Associated Press by telephone.

The Mekong giant catfish was listed as critically endangered in 2003 after research showed its numbers had fallen by at least 80 percent in the past 13 years.

Fishermen believe the catfish species has been declining largely because of dams and environmental damage along the Mekong River — home to more species of giant fish than any other river, said an earlier statement by WWF and the society.

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'world's largest caught in thailand', eh?

That is a big fish. Is it bigger than that sturgeon that was netted in China a while back, though?

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That's fucking impressive.

Too bad it was netted. That fish deserved a fighting chance with a fisherman and his tackle.

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'world's largest caught in thailand', eh?

That is a big fish. Is it bigger than that sturgeon that was netted in China a while back, though?

"...Thai fishermen netted a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever caught in Thailand..."

Note the qualifiers.

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That's fucking impressive.

Too bad it was netted. That fish deserved a fighting chance with a fisherman and his tackle.

I don't know where you're going to find 646 pound test line. Unless you go to the hardware store and buy steel cable.

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"...Thai fishermen netted a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever caught in Thailand..."

Note the qualifiers.

Yeah, I repeated that 'world's largest... caught in Thailand' bit because it seemed pretty weird in itself.

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I don't know where you're going to find 646 pound test line. Unless you go to the hardware store and buy steel cable.

You don't need line of strength equal to the weight, at least not for the smaller fish. I've caught 5 pound fish on 3 lb line with a 1.5 lb trace; I just make sure that I don't try to lift the fish out of the water with the line (but that's OK, I have a landing net).

However, I doubt it would be close to possible to fight a fish that big without being strapped down (ideally in a boat) and having a great deal of line with no obstacles for it to wrap the line around.

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They should have caught it noodling.

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Yeah, right. That fish was damned near big enough to catch them by noodling.

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I see they cut it up and sold it as food. Man, I bet a catfish that big just tastes like total ass. The bigger a catfish gets, the worse it tastes.

That is one impressively big catfish though. It is unfortunate that Mr. Bass Plaque Maker did not make an immediate trip there.

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It's Tailand, Torque, it could have been a old tractor tire and they'd have done the same thing.

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I see they cut it up and sold it as food. Man, I bet a catfish that big just tastes like total ass. The bigger a catfish gets, the worse it tastes.

That is one impressively big catfish though. It is unfortunate that Mr. Bass Plaque Maker did not make an immediate trip there.

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Not to mention the mercury that thing likely has in its system. I bet eating a bite of that fish is like sucking an old thermometer dry.

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Unlikely, SP. It was caught on the upper reaches of the Mekong River. Historically, there has been and remains to this day essentially no industry in the region or upriver to it. Now, persistent residues of Agent Orange, and various explosives wouldn't surprise me.

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I don't know where you're going to find 646 pound test line. Unless you go to the hardware store and buy steel cable.

People catch marlins with 50 lb test line,but I would go with 130 lb test or even 100 for anything over 600 lbs.
And that's salt water where it seems those fish fight harder.
Netting is....cheating.
Where's the sport?

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