VIDEO: Wels catfish

A collection of glimpses, close encounters and near misses with a 6-ft freshwater catfish

Author: Pat
31st January 2019
 

This is the story of how we spent Sundays searching for a 6-foot long Wels catfish – and the subsequent effort to photograph it. Not easy, when it lives in soft sediment…

 
 
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