We don't like to get caught, you know – it's not good for morale.
We're meant to be the big guys of the water, the tough ones, the fish other species look up to.
Humans, though, they sometimes get the better of us.
Old Whiskers, the main man catfish of Essex, found that out this week. Poor guy. They'd been hunting him down for ages – we all knew it – but Old Whiskers thought he was smart. Too smart, some of us used to say.
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