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The Schuylkill River Bridge Has Been Open for Two Seconds and People are Catching HUGE Catfish
By Kyle Pagan
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The Schuylkill River Trail extension just completed and people are catching catfish the size of first graders! The average catfish gets north of 15 pounds. Well this one weighed 40 and apparently this guy’s name is Steve Dave and he’s a legend in the Southeast PA fishing game. Steve Dave pairs beautifully with catfish:
Look at the size of that thing! Filet that shit up and you could feed an entire Drexel graduating class.
With the Schuylkill River Trail expanding I can’t wait to see more of the monstrosities that come out of the water. Imagine the anxiety you’re feeling every time you’ve got a haul. Is it a body that the mob sunk 30 years ago, or another catfish? It’ll be a fun little game for anyone who fishes down there.
Serious question: Can you eat this thing? I don’t know if you’d want to if you’ve taken a gander at what the Schuylk has looked like the last couple of decades, but I’m curious. Apparently there is like 14 billion gallons of sewage flowing into this bad boy a year and people are still not allowed to swim in it, but it’s safer than it was a decade ago. That’s according to Frank Kummer at the Inquirer. And with all the microplastics I apparently eat a day, what’s a little bit of poison catfish on the body? For those concerned, the person who caught this catfish apparently threw it back in the river, according to the Reddit thread.
Who remembers this guy fishing a catfish out of the sewer a couple years ago? This was epic and the sewer or Schuylkill are basically the same thing:
P.S. Obligatory Big Daddy clip:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com