I have lived and fished in three states known for huge Flathead and Blue catfish Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina but have fished in Louisiana Arkansas, Tennessee. I have no doubt out in the ocean there are species of fish that are capable of killing and eating a grown man, but one story I've heard over and over again, some dive team went down inspecting a reservoir dam, hurried back to the surface saying, there's catfish biggest Volkswagen and he's not going back scared to death. I've seen some of the record flatheads and blue catfish on Lake Texoma and I believe the largest one I seen was a 130 lb blue cat. I myself have caught 100 lb Flathead here in North Carolina though she was as strong as a bull and would be capable of pulling you out of a boat if you're not set up and experienced catching them. they're real strong, but they're not going to eat you whole. I've seen them attack and eat ducks snatching them off of water but not a grown adult man. Now I know there's Wells catfish and other species that have a reputation and huge sturgeon that might do the job, but not these fresh water giant stories of being as big as a Volkswagen beetle not in these freshwaters.

Story 2. This story is about a man supposedly being checked by a game warden for fishing license and asked has he caught anything? No, but a little boy fishing up the next cove on the river said that his worms were biting him and then the game warden rushes to his car and runs up to check on a little boy and find him dead. he was supposedly fishing with a bucket of baby poisonous snakes. I've heard this story and every area that I have fished in. I myself was digging for fishing worms on a piece of property I owned in Texas I hadn't developed anything on it yet. But my family and a friend cloud and made us a large garden on the property and there was some good spots that I found a lot of earthworms that I in my brother will go dig, as I was coming through the worms I dug up some baby snakes but I recognized it cover them up and left them alone. I think these stories are just what they sound like stories, even when I was a young boy capable of going fishing on my own, I knew the difference between digging up earthworms fishing and snakes filling my bucket with them to use his fishing bait.