A British angler has caught the biggest fish on record in Spain.
Alan Melhuish was on a fishing holiday at the River Ebro near Barcelona when he caught the fish of a lifetime. It took him over half an hour to land the giant 102.5 kilogram European catfish. Finally, at 11pm, it was brought to the bank . At that point Alan could see just what had taken him all his strength to haul in. He then had to tether it up and wait until daylight to weigh it.
The largest catfish to be caught in Europe was a 110.2 kg monster in Italy.
In other parts of the world freshwater catfish can grow even larger.
This 293 kg, 2.7m long Mekong catfish was caught in northern Thailand.
If you want to see what it is like to haul one of these fish in click on this link.
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