Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)
Moderator
Anybody else see this, last night. The title is awful but does concisely offer an explanation for the witnessed disappearences of adults.
The "culprits" appear to be very large Gooch Catfish - 160lb+ which have lots of large, hsarp and inward pointing teeth. One o those grabs your tootsies and pulls you down - unlikey to make a reappearence.
The programme was interesting, relatively scientific (nowhere near as sensationalist as I expected) - some good underwater photgraphy and some angling shots - Jeremy Wade - who I have come across on realtime and is a qualified biologist (seemed to know his stuff and was extremely rational...until it came to hurling himself into a fast flowing river in order to continue playing one of these large fish!!!)<blockquote class=quoteheader>Andy Youngs wrote (see)</blockquote><blockquote class=quote>
/members/images/34795/Gallery/fish.jpg
</blockquote>A Gooch Catfish - not as big as the ones featured!!!
The "culprits" appear to be very large Gooch Catfish - 160lb+ which have lots of large, hsarp and inward pointing teeth. One o those grabs your tootsies and pulls you down - unlikey to make a reappearence.
The programme was interesting, relatively scientific (nowhere near as sensationalist as I expected) - some good underwater photgraphy and some angling shots - Jeremy Wade - who I have come across on realtime and is a qualified biologist (seemed to know his stuff and was extremely rational...until it came to hurling himself into a fast flowing river in order to continue playing one of these large fish!!!)<blockquote class=quoteheader>Andy Youngs wrote (see)</blockquote><blockquote class=quote>
/members/images/34795/Gallery/fish.jpg
</blockquote>A Gooch Catfish - not as big as the ones featured!!!