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Bonus points if catching it requires the use of your own flesh as [[The Bait|live bait]].
Note that not ''all'' catfish in fiction are Legendary Catfish, and not all examples of Legendary Catfish are literal catfish. But in the places where catfish are common, they are well known for attempting to eat anything they can swallow, grow to enormous size given enough food, drive out other fish, and be extremely difficult to kill.
[[Truth in Television]], at least in Eurasia. Look up the [[wikipedia:Wels catfish|"wels catfish"]], also called a "sheatfish". They can be up to 10 ft long (3m) and weigh 330 lbs (150 kg). They eat ducks.
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Compare [[Legendary Carp]]. See [[wikipedia:Noodling|"Noodling"]]. Not related to [[w:Catfishing|"Catfishing"]], a term that can apply in a [[Dating Service Disaster]].
Maybe it's a [[Killer Rabbit]], Evil Squirrel, or a Rabid Raccoon, or the actual evil Catfish himself (Several shows will have a whole episode about an evil vicious Catfish), but if it's an animal that should be easy prey, but turns into a ''[[Moby Dick]]''-style [[Animal Nemesis]] you've sworn to kill or die trying, you're probably dealing with a '''
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* The Irvin S. Cobb story [https://web.archive.org/web/20130907041714/http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/10592/ "Fishhead."]
* In David Eddings' ''[[The Belgariad|Polgara the Sorceress]]'', one character is convinced to keep his true identity as the lost prince of Riva a secret by getting him hooked on trying to catch one of the local Catfishes, "Old Twister" - and, should he ever succeed, intends to let Old Twister go again. When Old Twister turns up dead after a hard winter, the heir actually gives up fishing.
* In [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'', there is an eddy outside of Boston inhabited by a trout which has been eluding capture for 25 years. A store in Boston offers a $25 fishing rod to anyone who catches it. The main character, after observing a group of boys looking out at the Eddy and coveting the prize, tells them, "Only don't catch that old fellow down there. He deserves to be let alone." One of the kids remark, "Can't anybody catch that fish."
* In ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]],'' the giant catfish Bo'dollos is rumoured to haunt a lake formed over a crater once occupied by a village and 'an intercontinental launching pad, complete with several fascinating subterranean storage tanks.' Incidentally, the site was excavated by the Venerable Boedullus.
* The ultimate example has to be the short story [https://web.archive.org/web/20090304095258/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/waldrop5/waldrop51.html "God's Hooks"] by [[Howard Waldrop]].
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