Where Have All The Catfish Gone? [Blast From The Past]

If you’ve lived in Nashville long enough, you might remember seeing more than a few of these guys hanging out around town back in 2003. In honor of National Catfish Month (we had no idea there was such a thing), we decided it was time to find out where they all went.

Catfish Out Of Water was a city art festival put on by the Cumberland River Compact, Greenways for Nashville, and the Parthenon Patrons Foundation. The idea was to get a lot of people together to make some really weird catfish-shaped art and raise awareness about how important it is to keep the Cumberland clean. The fish were displayed from June until October of 2003 when they were finally auctioned off at the Catfish CATillion gala. We’ve only seen a couple of them around town since then, but originally there were 51. Luckily they were all immortalized in About.com’s catfish gallery featuring the photos and original locations of each fish. Tell us about your favorites in the comments!

Photo by tanya hyde.