I was 7 years old and went to a small pond on our farm to fish for turtles. We often caught snappers and cleaned and ate them. I had no bait, but shot a red winged black bird with my BB gun...sorry PETA and tore out it's heart and inners. I put them on a hook and waited until I saw a clump of bubbles, meaning a turtle was on the move on the bottom. I cast out to the bubbles with a cork and about 4 feet of line below it. Instead of the usual bump and bobble for a 1/2 hour or so, indicating the turtle was ingesting the bait (you have to wait till they swallow the hook to reel them in) there was an immediate, hard bite and I set the hook. The small pond literally spun from the fight! I had no idea what I had on the line even when I finally landed the thing. I didn't know then, but do now, but what I reeled in was a bullhead catfish. I drug it to the shoreline and held it there with one hand and pumped 2 BB's in its head with the other. The fish 1/2 hung out of the 5 gallon bucket that I took with me. We later weighed it on a scale that my Dad used when he made sausage and I presume was fairly accurate. It weighed 6 1/2 pounds and we ate it for supper...and it was awful. The neatest thing about the story is that a couple years ago I was looking at record fish weights and the largest recorded yellow-belly bullhead catfish ever caught was 5 1/4 pounds. I still have a picture of me holding that fish out in our yard and it sure looks 6 pounds plus. if I ever get adept at scanning pics etc. I'll post it one day..it is a hoot!