A North Carolina man caught more than he wanted to eat while fishing for his dinner. Jerry Melton said he was fishing in the Catawba River in Gaston County when he pulled up a fish with a rather odd bite. Turned out that fish was a 1 pound, 4 ounce piranha.
Melton said he didn't know what he had caught until a fellow fisherman told him.
"Actually, there was a guy down there and he said 'that might be a piranha', and, you know, I said... 'that ain't no piranha... they ain't got piranha around here'," said Melton.
Piranhas are illegal to possess in North Carolina. A wildlife officer said whoever owned the piranha probably dumped it in the river when they got tired of it.
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