Couple episodes on back to back on discovery now. Cool stuff

Love River Monsters!! Great show!

Good show, thanks for the heads up. I just changed it over.

so nice

it is a cool show.

JohnR saw me do the 'going for a swim' routine once.... but it sure wasn't in the Kali river!

it is a cool show.

JohnR saw me do the 'going for a swim' routine once.... but it sure wasn't in the Kali river!


"Swim" or "Reef Wandering?"

Rock - now that you'll have less time I gots ta say, we need to fish together once or twice in 2010

yeah, definitely John. My nights will get precious, so I'll be looking at specific times and tides to hit hard!

Those "goonch" catfish from india make barracudas look like puppy dogs!:eek::eek::eek:

big enough to grab a Swimmer :shocked:
better not go there Frank

Sure, those BIG catfish are impressive and dangerous, but you have to check out the episode about the Amazon River catfish species.
Not the BIG ones, but the LITTLE one. These are not catfish in the way we think of catfish, but man are they terrible.

Bottom line: one species uses the urine that is expelled by the larger fish to track them down and attach to their gills so they can feed of their blood. There is one confirmed case of a man having one of these fish swim up his urethra and required surgery for removal.

The other is a carnivore/scavenger that eats meat like a pirhanna.
There were confirmed reports of bodies pulled from the river that had no internal organs, just hundreds of these fish that had entered the body through one hole chewed by the fish.

Real nasty critters, and even more dangerous river for anyone unlucky enough to be in it at the wrong time and place.

It's a great show though because it's based on factual information, not speculation.

Oh, how about freshwater maneating sharks? They have those as well. Seems that some bull sharks have been living in some of the freshwater rivers in South America.

Just the fact that they were asking "how the giagantic goonch catfish was able to survive in a basically nutrient deprived area and then they show people from india performing their rituals with the dead and how they creamate:devil2: them and then dump the half burnt body into the river and these catfish have been feasting on the remains.:drool::drool: YUMMY! The way he was fishing toward the end of the episode reminded me of fishing the canal during the fall run hurrican of 08 :)