Just saw this on a different forum and I thought that I would post a link to it. This blue cat was caught in mississippi.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_120615.asp

That thing is insane.

WOW

Holy Sheite thats a bigun. I'm not too sure I would have wanted that thing in my boat either . He might have been mad.

Awesome blue! Sure wish he would have had it weighed and measured.

Thats for a huge fish. I really suspect to see the world record be shattered in the near future and this might have been it with out a good frame of reference it hard to say. With the EPA restrictions that have been in place for many years now I think we starting to see the countries major river start to produce they way they did man years ago. I have seen very old photos of monster blues that are much larger than anything I have ever seen in recent times.

I'm not an expert on Blue Cats - but does the head look flat on the 2nd picture? It almost reminds me of the Giant Mekong Catfish that reaches great weights. HUGE FISH!

Wow, ignoring its size that is a BEAUTIFUL fish! I just want to pet it or something, like a dolphin lol.

dats a beeg won uf dem beeg ole dang catfish

Over on wwww.catfish1.com website, Tony Farrar did the following measurements based on the size of the can in the background. Does anyone have the measurements on SPLASH....?

what a beast!

Here is another picture of the same fish. Any guess what this beast would have weighted? [img][/img]

prolly weighed around 45 to 50 lbs ... it's a photoshop blow up ya'll. it's easy to see the edit lines on there where they used the lasso in photoshop to cut it out of the original photo and blew it up and then pasted it back on there ... there's several editing mistakes they didn't cover up as one of the guy's fingertips was cut off when they edited it and stuff like that. the pixel distortion is evident also as the pixels of the fish's head are very large compared to the background pixels. that's what happens when you blow up a photo and then paste it back on the original is you get some distortion and you can see the distortion when you zoom in on the photo with photoshop.

I was going to state it's not a fake until I saw the feathered edges around the fin:


Plus....c'mon..the guy's dressed to fish, he has a ton of gear, rope, etc. Obviously if he caught a fish that big, he would have done everything possible to bring the fish in.

I was hoping the gene pool of the glory day Blues wasn't completely killed off. errr...

WHAT A FISH ....

I don't believe that would give a good measurement due to the fact the can is so much further back in the pic, I would guess about 3ft or more, the measurements would be longer on the cat which is alot closer. It sure looked real, I didn't realize what you could do with photoshop.

THE PAPER SAYS IT IS A REAL FISH ,NOT BLOWN UP .. WHO ???

Maybe it was photoshopped & faked, but my gut says this is legit - besides, he's not trying to get the catch certified as a record or anything like that.

Gorgeous catfish - I hope to meet one like that someday.

If this was a CPR fish, I was just wondering why he had to put a rope thru his gills If he was going to let it go. Wouldn't that do some damage to his gills. Not a very good lesson for a catch and release fish if you ask me. I will take Tiny's word on the photo as i don't know anything about changing one. Just know how to take the photo. Ok, just my 2 cents.

Probable World Record Catfish????
How can anyone say this is a world record when the fish was not certified. I not sure but Cabel's has a reward of $100,000.00 for a world record. You can't tell me he turned it back knowing it could be a new WORLD RECORD and worth big bucks.If the fish was real again I said if, its sad it was not certified.
Have call BS on this one.

If you blow it up in photoshop you can see the pixels of the fish are 4 times the size of the background pixels and you can see in the edit on one of the pictures that the guy or gal that did the photoshopping cropped part of the dude's finger off .. I'll show ya what I mean as you can only get that kind of effect from a photoshopping blow up and past on using the lasso

here's the mistakes they made by photoshopping it ... here's where they cropped off part of the finger with the photoshop lasso


here is the original photo I took the top pic from and if you look at his index finger you can see that there is something wrong with the finger or it looks like it's pointed. This is a common error you get from faking a photo.


also on that second pic there appears to be a line on top of the fish's head where it meets the background water ... that's because of the lasso can't follow the line of whatever you're lasso'n perfectly and it creates a stair step effect of the distorted pixels where they meet the unaltered pixels in the background ... I'll show you in this photo as you can see on the bottom where the fish's head is that the pixels are 4x distorted compared to the water pixels on top left which are much finer pixels. and I've outlined the stair stepping effect that's created by the photoshop lasso so that you can see it easier. and that stair stepping is what produced that line on top of the fish's head.


also on other photos like the one where the fin is a lot smaller below the water on the closeup shot because they couldn't alter that and make it look right so they used the fish's original fin and just blew up the head above it ... to where on the other photo where you see the fin above the water and the picture taken from further away the fin is twice as big above the water as it is below the water in the closeup shot. like on this photo where the fin is below the water .. I'll post this pic again so you can pay particular attention to the fin


now look at the fin when it's pasted beside the fin above the water. It's actually a lot smaller where it should have been a lot bigger in the closeup and even bigger than that due to the water's magnifying effect as things under the water appear to be 10% to 20% bigger and this fin is actually a lot smaller because it's not blown up like the one above the water is.


The reason I know this is cause I've worked with photoshop quite a lot in editing photos like this just playing around but I've never lied about a fish like they're doin. I've made a few fake pics that appear to be eating a man and what not but the guy is smiling and posing for a photo ... he wouldn't have been smiling if a fish was about to clamp down on his whole body hahaha. but these photos are totally bogus as you can see when they're blown up.

You're the man Tiny. I analyzed the photo and came to the same conclusions. Good catch Tiny!

Good work Tiny.

I thought something looked bogus, I had asked in another thread about this if anyone had "Snope'd" it yet hehe.

probably too soon for snopes to get it but they jumped on that one where they was saying lucas van der geest's wels cat photo was a new world record blue from arkansas ... maybe they'll find out about this one pretty soon. but it's clearly a bunch of altered photos as those pixels should be identical and the feathering that someone else pointed out along with the stair stepping ... there's no way to make a photo look real that's not real just because of the pixels and what not. if no one else had photoshop so they could zoom in on it then they could probably get away with it but it's a very common program ... one that I've worked with quite a bit making joke deals like animated gifs posting some of my friend's heads on a barbie figurine and altering them in different positions and using a gif animator so that it makes them dance hahaha. or this one of the famous fish below the dam that scared divers that I made .. the name of the pic was fakepic2.jpg so I wasn't trying to deceive anyone hahaha. it's 240 lbs in this photo hahaha.


this fish was reeled in by a friend of mine below keystone dam as I was letting them reel in all my fish but was only about 22 lbs

Tiny, great work.

Once again, you're showing what an asset you are to this forum.

Thanks Tiny! I have to 2nd what FTWorthBret Said "you are an asset to this forum". I am looking to book a trip w/ you soon - I shot you a PM.