New Bait Option?

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[CANOPY SAM]

Wow! What kinda catfish are those? They don't look like anything North American.

[Gordie]

I hope that doesnt spread the bird flu and then it would be called the fish flu.

My wife has the fish flu because she is sick of me fishing

[Lowblazah]

Wow! What kinda catfish are those? They don't look like anything North American.

Looks like wels catfish.

[davidbigreelz]

There is a french article about them, so iam going to assume small wells(small being relative in wells)... http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr...sser-le-pigeon/

Looking at their pidgeon meals though they gotta be at least 36-40".

[mainbutter]

My guess is they are Wels (one "l") Catfish, which are common throughout many places in Europe, but there are plenty of species of silurian catfish and I'm no expert on identifying them. They all tend to have that eel-shaped tail.

Wels don't typically grow to be 100kg+ monsters throughout most of their range, but the illegally stocked wels kitties in the Rio Ebro that became giants made the species famous. The Rio Ebro has had its ecology COMPLETELY changed by humans in the past 200 years, devastating the native species but making a great habitat for wels cats, the common carp, and other non-natives.

I love that video I know people use bird-lures for big esox on occasion, but I think that big aggressive channels and maybe even flatheads would sometimes take the opportunity to eat a bird if presented with it.