David Stepp was fishing for catfish with friends on the Ohio River recently, when he reeled in a bizarre catch — an octopus. Since he knew no one would believe his fish story, the 20-year-old Jeffersonville, Ohio man threw it in the trunk of his car and took it to the Clarksville police station.
Bill Putt, a police officer and park ranger at the Falls of the Ohio State Park took photographs of Stepp and the creature. The octopus is purplish-brown and measures six feet from the tip of one tentacle to the other. As it is normally a saltwater creature, it obviously could not survive for very long in the Ohio River.
This catch just might take the prize for weird discoveries at the falls, where park crews and visitors have found crocodiles and piranha-like tropical fish over the years — animals probably kept as pets and released by owners into the river and onto river banks.
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