A father-son fishing trip at Ridley Park Lake in Delaware County is now gaining national attention.<\/p>\n
69 News Reporter Julianna Furfari spoke with Michael Coffey about his son’s surprising catch.<\/p>\n
Coffey says his 8-year-old son Seamus is an avid fisher. The pair always goes to the same spot on Ridley Park Lake; this time they were using shrimp in an attempt to catch catfish.<\/p>\n
Coffey says on their recent trip he knew there was a bite, but he was surprised at the fish’s fight. What they pulled out of the water is shocking and now has the internet talking.<\/p>\n
“He was like no dad, that’s a piranha. I said no, it’s not a piranha, come on. Then I Google imaged it and it was a red belly piranha and my son was like I told you dad I told you,” explained Coffey.<\/p>\n
8-year-old Seamus Coffey knew about piranhas from YouTube.<\/p>\n
“When you felt it, it felt like a brick. The actual fish was solid. Crazy bone structure and nothing like we would catch,” said Coffey.<\/p>\n
Coffey says he believes someone dumped the piranha into the body of water when they couldn’t care for it anymore.<\/p>\n
What started as a reminder to not dump invasive specifies in the lakes sparked a viral sensation. The story took off.<\/p>\n
The father and son duo are gaining national attention, so much so, that now companies are reaching out hoping to send gear to the Seamus.<\/p>\n
His dad, is now documenting all their fishing adventures on social media.<\/p>\n
You can check out updates on their Instagram account: ReelTalkPiranha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father-son fishing trip at Ridley Park Lake in Delaware County is now gaining national attention. 69 News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-264973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}