Just when you Britts thought it was safe to swim in the water!

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Experts close in on 'Mere Monster'

 

[bluespoke]

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Experts close in on 'Mere Monster'

A mere tiddler compared to 'Nessie'.

 

[Frimost]

Too bad Nessie dosn't exist, at least not anymore...

I have a theory that Plesiosaur-like animals may have existed at one time, that they would travel from one fjord or Mountain Lake to the next after they had eaten enough of the fish there. Once the body of water could no longer sustain their ravenous appetite they would migrate. When the fish supply was depleted they would lumber across land to the next body of water like the walking fish so that they could renew the cycle all over again. I think that this creature, in the rare instances when seen on land in transit to its next watery home, was seen by Mid-eval villagers and became the Dragons of myth and legend.

Right now Loch Ness only has enough fish to support two tons or predatory animal (not nearly enough for a sea serpent). If there is any Loch Ness monster now (that cannot be explained by science) then it is the ghost of a dinosaur and not anything living today.

 

[Frimost]

Maybe they will get lucky here instead?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38073000/jpg/_38073999_ness.jpg

The Swedish Nessie

The Norwegian Nessie

 

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ooh, a new sighting off of Cornwall!

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'Nessie spotted' in Cornwall

 

[scylis]

that's Dill out for a swim floating belly up, not Nessie.

 

[sexy-girl]

Re: ooh, a new sighting off of Cornwall!

i was in cornwall few weeks ago

 

[BigDawg69]

I had the best ice-cream in Cornwall a few years back.

 

[Ask For More]

How come every picture is totally terrible quality. The guy should have swum closer for a better look. Never mind the risks, the people need to know!

 

[sexy-girl]

I had the best ice-cream in Cornwall a few years back.

thats because cornish ice cream IS the best ... there is a beach we go to since i've been a little girl and you have to go down a cliff to get to the beach and its pretty hot work coming back up but theres always an ice cream at the top in the car park ... and that ice cream always tastes the best because you've been thinking about it the whole time coming up the cliff

 

[BigDawg69]

I was on a 3 week road trip down from Derby to Land's End it was amazing, especially for a southern Yank like me. Drivng those one lane country roads, having to back up among hedge rows to a turn around to let the trucks, er lorries, by. Stayed in B&B's all the way! A wonderful time! Of course most of the "natives" were complaining as it was in the 80's and didn't rain the whole time! Heat wave and drought! I loved it!

Course didn't manage to see any monsters though.

 

[p_p_man]

I had the best ice-cream in Cornwall a few years back.

And proper Cornish Pasties are something to die for...

especially with baked beans!

 

[sexy-girl]

lol i remember those country roads well drive around the corner and sunddenely see a huge tractor or the road full of sheep ... i love the moorland too dartmoor and bobmin moor ... my nans house was on the edge of that and we use to go visit her every summer ... lisa and i just went there for a long weekend but really need to go longer

 

[BigDawg69]

Hmmmmm how could I forget the cornish pastires. *licking lips*

Although I could not get used to the baked beans and tomatoes served at breakfast. Hmmm nope good old Southern style breakfast is still my preference.

 

[Frimost]

You're not safe on land either...

So you like the moor sexy-girl?

You had better watch out for the monsters in the moor then!

"leopard-like" animal attacked an 11-year-old boy in Monmouthshire.

Hunt still on for 'panther' attacker

Further 'panther' sightings spark hunt

on the prowl in the Gloucestershire countryside

six lambs were mauled to death on a farm in near Carmarthen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/420000/images/_424775_big_cats3_300map.gif

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

I'm In Love With Frimost!

A Cat Would Never Bother With Any Kind Of Top Feeding. It's Just Not Their Thing.

Someone Call Doug Hannon! This Is His Dream! LOL

 

[lovetoread]

that's Dill out for a swim floating belly up, not Nessie.

That was my first thought when I saw the pic.

 

[Frimost]

And you thought the "walking fish" was bad!

Kiss me I'm beautiful
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Net closes in on Hannibal the fish

They nicknamed the catfish "Hannibal" because of the amount he eats. He regurgitated 57 fish when captured.

The operation to land the 5ft-long Wels catfish, began after fears he could decimate other wildlife in the river

Angler Oliver caught Darren after battling him for 90 minutes and being pulled along the river from one end of the village to the other.

Oliver told a local newspaper: "When I saw it in the water I knew it was a big 'un, but had no idea it was larger than me. But I was not about to let it get away."

He illegally threw it back into the water after catching it, now it is still on the loose! Its probably going to get like 16 to 18 feet long now soon and start eating swimming Britts for breakfast any day now! lol

The Wels catfish is Europe's largest freshwater fish and is not indigenous to the UK.

They have no natural predators in Britain, can grow up to eight feet long and feed on fish, small mammals and waterfowl.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

Honest!

I Need To Read This Shit!

Hrumph. I Just Can't Belive It.

 

[Frimost]

mighty big fish

From my The Complete Book of Fishing guide, page 90:

The British record is a little over 40 pounds, but in Europe 100 and 200 pound wels are quite common. In the large rivers of the USSR, such as the Dneiper, it can reach 650 pounds and a length of 16 feet; such fish are probably around a hundred years old.

Get ready to be snacked upon Britain, that wels is mighty hungry and as soon as it gets a little bit bigger you will look like a tasty treat to it!

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

Crazy MAn!

On the ugly end of the scale is the wels, or sheatfish, the giant cat of Eurasian rivers and lakes. Individuals nearly 15 feet long and some weighing more than 600 pounds have been reported. Stories of children being swallowed whole by these fish are part of European folklore. They are said to devour birds and dogs swimming at the surface.

Gracious!

 

[Frimost]

wel's food habits

And occasionally a rudeassnastybitch caught while skinny-dipping in the water...

 

[Frimost]

Bloodthirsty catfish is gonna come to your house and kill you all!

From the book Freshwater Fish the natural history of over 160 native European species by Malcom Greenhalgh.

European Catfish, page 148 to 149:

(Under the section titled Food and feeding behavior )

There are reports of children and dogs being attacked in the water.

and-

The European catfish's staggering power is best illustrated by the true story of a Polish youth who free-lined a bait from his rowing boat, tying the end of his line to his arm. A catfish took the bait, dragged him from his boat and towed him down into the depths where he drowned.

Somehow I am not surprised he was Polish...


(under the section Growth and longevity)

They may live for 15 to 20 years (exceptionally to 30 years) and to the huge sizes: 2-3m long weighing up to 200kg, with exceptional reports of 5m and 306kg.

The record caught by an angler (from the River Danube, Romania) weighed a mighty 91.82 kg and took five hours to land.

By my calculations that makes the largest catfish (5 meters and 306 kg) an astounding 16.5-feet long and 675-pounds!


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The European or Wels Catfish (Silurus glanis) originates from Eastern Europe, where in Russia they have been netted (by commercial fishermen) up to 16’ long and over 600 lbs in weight

Giant catfish eats dog


German fishermen spent last weekend hunting for a giant catfish that ate a pensioner's dog.

The mammoth fish, weighing up to 40 kilos, grabbed the dachshund puppy as it played in shallow water in a lake in Moenchengladbach, Germany.

Park keeper Juergen Schmidt said: "It was like that scene in Jaws - all frothing water and just a pathetic yelp from the dog."
Irene Sommer, who was taking her two children for a walk by the lake, said: "I couldn't believe my eyes. I heard the old woman screaming, she kept saying, 'My dog, my dog,' and pointing wildly at the water.

"Then she started to run away with the dog lead still in her hand. She was completely beside herself."

Giant catfish eats dog

http://www.solent-fishing-guide.co.uk/images/54llb_Catfish_WEB.jpg

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

German fishermen spent last weekend hunting for a giant catfish

that ate a pensioner's dog.


~giggles~

 

[Frimost]

They're just lucky it didn't eat someone pussy, right Rude'n'Nasty?

http://www.fishingwarehouse.co.uk/images/news/monstercat.jpg

I think its time you just all surrendered to the catfish, I mean come-on! Its a given already that they are in your swimming pool right now waiting to eat you!