There’s some exotic fish threatening the Florida Everglades. Marine biologists are having a hard time determining the threat level as the invasive species are underwater.

Isn’t that a hoot?!?!? Where else would they be?

The fish in question is the walking catfish. Now we don’t have walking catfish around these parts, but aren’t those the fish that travel above ground to the next water hole?

A few years ago, we had a big drought and the neighbor’s small pond all but dried up. He was a retired professor and used his country place as a retreat, so he was hardly ever there. One day I was down in the bottom of my property, on a nice sunny windless day, and kept hearing something. Curiosity took over and I climbed through the barb wire fence to discover what was making the strange flapping sound I was hearing.

Following the sound took me to the neighbors small near-dry pond to discover a whopper of a catfish trying to survive in what tiny little bit of mud that was left. Well, I couldn’t let him die now could I. I couldn’t just take him for my own devices either. You know, technically, I was trespassing.

What do you think I did?

Got down in that mud and scooped up that whopper catfish and walked him to the north side of the property, to the neighbor’s big pond.

That’s not a walking catfish, it’s walking a catfish.

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