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A Fishy Story

Sent in by David Kennerley
This story came from David's wife's cousin all the way from Arizona
A guy who lives at Lake Conroe (50 miles north of Houston) saw a ball bouncing around
kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate.
It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to
Swallow a basketball which became stuck in its mouth!!
The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would
always bring him back up to the surface. The guy tried numerous times to get the ball out,
but was unsuccessful.
He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.
You probably wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the following pictures...
Having a ball!
Almost in
I’m exhausted
Thanks mate. I’m off

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