I saw this story on a Dutch Catfish site today.
Apparently, it's a few years old, so maybe everyone's seen it already. If so, please forgive me.

But I thought was worth sharing. Really weird...
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_catfish_basketball.htm

That Flathead must have been pretty grateful!
Seems this isn't too uncommon an occurance.

Here's a 6 ft Wels Catfish (also taken from the Dutch Catfish site) that wasn't so lucky. This time, a soccerball apparently looked too good to resist... Somewhere in Germany.

Can you imagine being out on the water, seeing a ball floating around, and then GULP... That is some wild stuff.

Could be a gigantic Boilie! Start making your Boilies bigger and you too can catch fish like that. heeheehee