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I finally got a couple pics of the big Red Tailed Catfish I got in Brazil last week. I was thinking 40-45. The guide insisted he was 50. He bottomed out a 30 lb Boga Grip before he was anywhere near off the ground. For reference, I'm 6' 01" and 300.
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Neat looking catfish.
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That's one nice banana catfish. As well you look like your extremely sun burned [crazy]
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Awesome... Check that off your bucket list!
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Nice cat! Look out Jeremy Wade!
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U suck I'm jealous
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holy cow that thing has some cereal color to it, awesome!
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Fantastic!!!!
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Wow, what a catch! Those red tailed cats are quite the prize, I hear. And you got a really nice one. Really pretty too. Way to go!
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Oughta bring some of those up to Cutler, and dump em out of yur bucket into the marsh.

Seems the north really needs all the help it can get!

yeah, right.


Pretty fish!

cool! Ever catch one of these..if I can do it so can you!
check out my catfish even more rare! not even Jeremy Wade has caught one!
Have you or anybody you know?
I hear its an Ultra rare catch a Marbled catfish is..Achara
Its the only one I ever caught so I figured nobody else has ever caught one..[:p]
Leave it to a bigfishtackle moderator to catch rare exotics nobody else has ever caught!
I checked youtube already,nobody else can catch one of these..

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[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnGDgTBxyU"]Paulpro Achara catfish not Jeremy Wade (Biggest Wild Caught)[/url] "Marlbled catfish"


somebody send this video to Jeremy Wade,tell him
I said..

Quote: If I can catch one so can you

From Florida (not Brazil)
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There was a report from a local man born and raised of an 80lb red tail cat sighting.."followed in his lure"
Also a huge Arapaima at the golf course lake[shocked]
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I tried Yote, Customs got 'em.[]
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Nice catch on the Marbled Cat, Paulpro. The arapaima may not be too far from reality. I had one of those in my aquarium when I was a kid. I had arowanas, too. They will outgrow an aquarium. I'd imagine some folks would just let them go.

It was cool catching one of the Arowanas from their native habitat last week. I thought it would be weird, but I was pretty stoked when I got it.
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Lucky! how did you catch yours? I hear they like sunny days and fast moving baits,and are sreious jumpers even going up in the trees!!
there's one here I found but its really smart,won't even take a live fish,I'm about to try a cast net!
or maybe a mouse or live lizard or something?

I don't have any pics but a couple videos I can share .The day of the 1st sighting I ended up staying up all night just to get some footage in the morning[]
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[url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGBlUU5b44"]Florida Arowana sighting..[/url]

And then there's some night footage too[]
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The guides there say they like a fly stripped slowly. They are very spooky and don't seem very aggressive. I got mine on a blind strike, first thing in the morning, on a peacock fly (4" long chartreuse/white) stripped very fast. Go figure. He jumped a couple times. The coolest thing about the whole thing was the novelty of finally catching an arowana. Best fighter of the trip, hands down, was the catfish.
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I know the Red Tail is catch of a life time!! WTG Jim!
thanks for the aro tip..P
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