Catfish, not catfishing

To the dangers we face in Montana every summer add catfish.

Not catfishing.

Catfish.

My friend John ended up in the hospital recently after developing a life-threatening case of sepsis.

When I told my wife John was hospitalized following a run-in with a catfish she thought I was talking about the deceptive activity where a person creates a phoney identi-ty in order to scam another person.

As a mystery writer that was her first thought.

As an angler who has caught a fair number of catfish in my life, I knew what it was – he got stuck.Catfish will sting you if you aren’t careful. They have exter...