I got an interesting message from a friend who owns a local fish market. While cleaning a fresh catch of blue catfish this morning, they found an interesting stomach content item.

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My first question was
1. Was it a flathead catfish? ( He had not told me what it was yet)

2. How big was the fish?

I know flatheads take live fish, many times of a very large size compared to their body size.

His reply was it was an 18 pound blue catfish. That crappie alive would have been almost 12” long.

I know Crappie live a life of constant danger from predators but I would have been hard pressed to believe an 18 pound blue cat could catch and eat a 12” Crappie. I guess the crappie could have been dead when swallowed but that’s still a pretty big pill to swallow.


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