Catfish aren't bright

I'm not going to lie, this mildly interesting story became a lot more interesting to me when I discovered I was reading it on jeffbridges.com. That's right folks...Jeff Bridges - "the dude"

Anyway, here's the story: This guy in Kansas saw a basketball bouncing strangely around in his lake so he went to investigate. He discovered that a huge catfish, confusing the basketball for food, now had the thing lodged in its mouth and would probably die if he didn't help remove it. So after failing to pull the thing out, the guy's wife sliced the ball open and they removed the deflated corpse and the fish was free. Here are the photos to illustrate the story.