Pics of a actual sea monster, giant albino catfish

WHAT THE FUCK!?


Is this a result of radiation?!


Fukushima perhaps!?

This isn't a monster of any sort. It's a beautiful semi rare(albinisom) creature. This species gets quite large, again, it's not that unusual.

I don't quite understand the tendency to claim something is a monster. Also, even if it were a monster, it's not a sea monster, it's a freshwater fish.

sure as fuck aint beautiful, kill that fucking monster!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is normal, just on the large side of it! Pretty wild. Just hope they let it go.

what i meant is that this is what people are seeing in the water when they think they are seeing a "sea monster"

I want to betroth and pro-create with it.

Jesus haven't you guys ever heard of sturgeon? get out more.

Some species of catfish can weight over 600lb.

[link to news.nationalgeographic.com]

albino or pigmant-free creatures seem to be everywhere now days.

[link to www.smh.com.au]

I wrote a novel about that picture. Great stuff.

.... and should have been released so that it could continue on with life. Does not appear this was the fate for this incredible creature.

Not much good for eating either, bottom feeder.

Bottom feeders are great eating, it just depends on the species and age of the fish. An older/heavier fish tends to have a lot more toxins accumulated in it's flesh than a younger ones so it's better to avoid those. The big ones are major breeders anyway and it's best to leave them alive to help keep the species population numbers up. Some great tasting bottom feeders would be flounder, red drum, croaker, weakfish, speckled sea trout, and catfish, typically under 10lbs.

Fishing with "his uncle"...riiiighhht

Fucking humans have to kill anything and everything great in this world.

I was trying to catch one at the stoned quarry one night and it almost got on my x-wifes bobber. About 15 pounder Id say man.

this is normal size...
we have these in 5 lakes and in russia they have far bigger,but they are not albino

interesting catch tho

cool story :)

Fairly close to average size for deep water "Appaloosa" catfish in this area. They've pretty much halted river logging in substantially deep areas since so many people believe they're basically freshwater sharks.

I hope they released it? Great find.

It's an 8ft long Catfish, what is the big deal? it's not a bloody sea monster. You can get Tuna as big as 8ft, I don't see anyone screaming Nessie at those.

It took a long time to get that big, meaning it's full of toxins, I wouldn't eat it.

yep, I agree that sturgeon account for a lot of these sightings as well