Bigger than your dog?!? That fish bigger than a man, and it just swam out of a meter or less of water. That behemoth was probably waiting for a person to wade in the water…
NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER EVERRRRRRRRRR GO IN!!!!!!! Stay on land where you can atleast runaway 🤣 That’s just how I think cuz I’d be scared 😱 you can’t even see what’s under
Not common but definitely the average fully mature adult the common size is way smaller because it takes really long for these animals to grow and people hunt the bigger ones
He's literally geared up to fish for wels catfish lol. That rod/reel/line combination is all tailor made for catching these fish. You never reel when a fish is that close lol.
Nah man if I saw that every time I fished I'd ACTUALLY want to go fishing. Instead of sitting there for hours without any catches learning about "patience" or something.
I’ve fished for 37 years and in spite of all of the big fish that I’ve caught, I’m not sure I could keep my composure watching a fish of that magnitude chasing and eating a topwater bait. And your casting ability is unreal!!! Side note: is that a Wels?
That one might be 180 lbs at most. Records in the 300's I think. Historically they were thought to hit 10 feet long and have mouths large enough to try to eat people.
@@ianjohnson1610 yea. That's a big fish, I don't know too much about fishing but I'm sure his boat could be bigger. Pulling that into a small boat could have plenty variables.
I’ve come face to face with a 6’ reef shark in Maui and nothing happen i was hella scared but I still go in the ocean, lakes, ponds ect... life’s too damn short not to live it.
@@greenthumbpatriot3295 so your idea of living is risking death ? I'm perfectly content with my life not putting myself in harm's way for short term enjoyment- but hey.. to each his own
@@OnPoint88 They didn’t say to go get yourself killed. Also, you can’t risk death, death is inevitable, you can only risk life. Maybe you like living in a box, but to us who live full fledged lives, there’s no such thing as risk there’s only competency and capabilities. If I don’t have both of those, I won’t do something. Simple as that.
People from the comment section definitely never seen Jeremy Wade show River Monsters. This Wells Catfish is actually medium size compared to the sizes and lengths Catfish can reach on River Monsters.
My friends dad was an underwater welder. He would get contracted to work on Dams in the area. Said there are Catfish down at the bottom of dams that could easily swallow your arm or leg and hold you down.
A guy we went to school with, his dad told us of a time in the Tennessee River just below the dam when the water level was very low, they would wade out to these water pools where large catfish were laying down and put a rope through the fishes mouth and gill, guys on the bank would pull it in. Once a catfish closed it’s mouth on the guys arm and swam off with him and drowned him like he was nothing.
@@williamdawkins4731 :One time my dad & his friends took me wild boar hunting out in the Adirondacks. I shot my first keeper, and my father's buddy nipped one of the boars. Well, hardly any buckshot hit it, just enough to get it angry. The wild 🐗 charged him piercing him in the gut & hurling his body down a cliff where he bleed out. Tim Lau: Did he die? Or did he bleed out but live?
There are catfish that can grow to 15ft in length. The wels catfish. I personally have seen one in a French river eat a adult duck, that had a head at least 18" across. Don't know how long it was but it looked like a monster.
Back in the 80s or 90s I think, a guy wanted to go diving in the Kanawha river in Charleston, West Virginia. He apparently went down to the bottom, but came up in a panic. Said it was hard to see, but saw the mouth of a catfish big enough to swallow a man headfirst. That's the story I was told.
I'm not sure what you're entailing....but in America, native Catfish can get quite large. You can find videos of people catching them that are just stupid big. I've also seen a video of a Boston chef saying the Channel Catfish was invasive....only to look it up and find that it occurs naturally in Boston waters...like most of America...
@@theshade919 yeah but in America they at least have predators usually. The issue is when they are introduced to somewhere where they don't have predators, then they'll just eat everything and cause damage to the ecosystem.
@@LoneWolf971NZ that's why hunting and fishing are important, population control. It's called stewardship, and it is the kind and responsible thing to do.
@@ShortArab. not any living animal but I get you... I’m asking as far as: are they a threat to human if they get into the water. Most animals leave humans alone..other, if it’s in the water, you shouldn’t be in the water. THATS what I’m asking..
@@1stNumberOne hmm that I don't really know, i guess it depends, if it's hunting and it sees a guy skinny dipping it might think there's a worm attached to the guy but any other situation I think we are too big now if it saw a toddler maybe it would try to attack it coz u know it's smaller prey but even then logically I think any human being other than a new born baby would be too big
