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That Was No Bass a Boy Caught in an Oklahoma Pond
That Was No Bass a Boy
Caught in an Oklahoma Pond
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That Was No Bass a Boy Caught in an Oklahoma Pond

11-year-old tries to catch invasive pacu, a piranha cousin, again after releasing it

(Newser) - "We're used to just catching a few bass or catfish" in the pond behind her family's house, Janna Clinton said. "I mean, nothing with human-like teeth." But her son Charlie's screaming when fishing over the weekend indicated that something was up, though she thought...

Girl, 11, Catches Piranha Relative in Oklahoma

Invasive species bit her grandmother

(Newser) - An 11-year-old girl has quite the fish tale: A rare pacu with human-like teeth chomped down on the worm at the end of her line while she was fishing with her grandparents and brother in an Oklahoma lake. But Kennedy Smith isn't exaggerating when she describes her catch, the...

Piranha-Like 'Testicle Biter' Caught in Michigan

Pacu was probably released from aquarium

(Newser) - A woman fishing on the Michigan side of Lake St. Clair last week caught an unusual—and by some accounts, terrifying—fish more commonly found in South America. "When it first came up, I’m like, 'Holy crap,'" Holley Luft tells Fox News . "And just...

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