blue catfish, Cabella's sporting goods store, Allen, Texas

[gurdonark]

blue catfish, Cabella's sporting goods store, Allen, Texas, originally uploaded by gurdonark.

Last night we met up with one of my wife's co-workers to see the final Harry Potter movie. I liked this one the best out of the set. We then went to Chuy's in Plano for fajitas.Today my young friend and I walked around McKinney's Towne Lake, as Friday evening rains had (thankfully) made things a bit wet.We also visited A Real Bookstore, A used CD/DVD and game emporium, A Vietnamese restaurant, a Balinese smoothie shop and Cabella's sporting goods store, at which blue catfish sported in a large aquarium. I rarely see blue catfish in the wild--they dwell in larger rivers, but I feel a fondness for them, as I do for channel catfish bullhead catfish, plecos, madtoms and every genus and species connected with them.

Comments

[tuscendi.livejournal.com]

Nice shot. You know so many varieties of catfish!

I've never seen a blue. Long ago I saw some enormous catfish in shallow areas near the bank of the Susquehanna River where it runs through Sayre, Pennsylvania. Don't know exactly what they were and probably couldn't identify them now. They were at least 5-6 feet long, and wide, looked heavy. Drab coloration, brown or blue-grey.

The Kanawha River that runs through Charleston WV where I live has a variety of catfish: blue, channel, and flathead. Seventy pounds is the state record for flathead, but a couple of years ago someone caught a 60 pounder just a little downriver from where I live. However, people are warned not to eat any catch below Charleston because they're loaded with dioxin and mercury from the chemical plants from South Charleston to Nitro. There was a time when Union Carbide was amongst those plants and it produced the same chemical that killed and maimed all those people in India. For some years I and my family referred to Charleston as "Bhopal Number Two".

The Ohio River that flows past Huntington, West Virginia, about an hour west of Charleston, has four varieties of catfish: blue, channel, rathead, and white.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I have never caught a blue, and only seen them in captivity. They usually are tied to huge rivers like the Kanawha. When I was a kid, the local paper always had pictures of folks who caught massive flatheads. Most of the catfish I've know the best are channels and bullheads from little ponds my grandfather owned. A local wildlife reserve supposedly has a lot of "rough fish" in a little pond not far from here--perhaps I'll see if I can spot a few soon.

[conscience.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! CATFISH! :D

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

catfish are the best