River Monsters: Vundu Caught
By: Timothy Kwon, Riley Ryan, and
Bryce Yeager
Jeremy Wade
from River Monsters on Discovery Channel went to the Zambezi River in Africa.
He heard stories of people mysteriously dying when fishing, so he went to catch a beast called the Vundu. He went to a river that said to have the beast. This river had a
many fierce rapids, etc. He went to a part of a river with rapids. He threw his
line in a caught nothing. He tried again and this time he caught a catfish, but
it wasn’t the one he was looking for. Then he went to a part in the river that
was half peaceful water and half rapids. He threw his line and caught
something. When he pulled it in, he caught a tiger fish; sort of like the
piranha, but bigger. So he gave up on that part of a river.
So he went to a brother of someone
who died of being pulled into the river when he was fishing. Jeremy thinks he
died of the fish he was trying to catch. The brother gives him some info on the
fish. He says that it was a snake-like fish. Then he goes to a place and he
asks them if he could fish at the bottom of the dam. While he is waiting for an
approval, he goes to another part of the Zambezi River to fish. He tries but,
he only gets other fish. Then when he was going back, he sees a dead hippo so
he goes there and puts a hand line and leaves it overnight. The next day he
goes to the same place he put the hand line in, he gets a catfish, but not the
one he was looking for.
Then he gets news that he got his proposal
to fish at the dam approved. So he immediately goes there as soon as possible.
He throws his line and he got a fish! He pulls the fish in but not without a
fight and he catches the fish he was looking for! It was the Vundu, almost 5 feet
long, and 121 pounds. It was muscular and the color was olive brown on the
surface and light brown or white on its bottom side. And it is the biggest
freshwater species in Southern Africa and it can live up to 12 years. It is
also known as Heterobranchus longifilis. This is clearly a man-eating fish.
