MH
09,10,08, 19:27
again check out the pic in link
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1788216.ece
BRIT angler Alan Melhuish is the toast of Spain after catching the country's biggest ever fish. The 61-year-old snagged a massive eight feet long catfish weighing more than 16 STONE.
Alan's monster from the deep – which is one of the biggest fish ever caught in Europe – fought like a bull but eventually gave in to the coroner's officer's determination. Alan spent half-an-hour reeling in the 226lbs record catch that weighed more than England rugby forward George Chuter. By the time the fish was landed it was nearly midnight, so it was tethered in the river until morning when it could be weighed and photographed. Ecstatic Alan, from Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, spent a week on the River Ebro near Barcelona trying the land a whopper. He was with his son-in-law Steve Hutter, 35, and friend Billy Brown, 35, both sergeants in the RAF. And it needed all three men to hold it when it was caught.
The catfish was placed on the scales which went beyond the 200lb mark, sparking scenes of celebration in the river bank. Alan said: “I went on a week’s trip there last year but didn’t catch much, but I booked another week this year. “It was almost on the last day when I hooked the big one. I was standing on a pontoon and I could tell it was big. “It ripped the line and must have raced 40 metres up the river. It took me half-an-hour to to get it in and I could tell it was a decent size. “I had to use all my strength to stop myself from being pulled off the pontoon into the river. “When I got it into the shallows my son-in-law went down to have a look and he told me it was massive. “It was gone 11pm and dark so we secured it for the night on a 100metre length of rope and came back first thing in the morning. “There are three weights of catfish that get anglers excited, 100lbs, 150lbs, and then the magical 200lbs mark. “When the scales went past the 200 mark and up to 226lbs I knew it was the fish of a lifetime."
The biggest freshwater fish ever caught in Europe was a catfish that tipped the scales at 243lbs in Italy
great catch :clap:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1788216.ece
BRIT angler Alan Melhuish is the toast of Spain after catching the country's biggest ever fish. The 61-year-old snagged a massive eight feet long catfish weighing more than 16 STONE.
Alan's monster from the deep – which is one of the biggest fish ever caught in Europe – fought like a bull but eventually gave in to the coroner's officer's determination. Alan spent half-an-hour reeling in the 226lbs record catch that weighed more than England rugby forward George Chuter. By the time the fish was landed it was nearly midnight, so it was tethered in the river until morning when it could be weighed and photographed. Ecstatic Alan, from Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, spent a week on the River Ebro near Barcelona trying the land a whopper. He was with his son-in-law Steve Hutter, 35, and friend Billy Brown, 35, both sergeants in the RAF. And it needed all three men to hold it when it was caught.
The catfish was placed on the scales which went beyond the 200lb mark, sparking scenes of celebration in the river bank. Alan said: “I went on a week’s trip there last year but didn’t catch much, but I booked another week this year. “It was almost on the last day when I hooked the big one. I was standing on a pontoon and I could tell it was big. “It ripped the line and must have raced 40 metres up the river. It took me half-an-hour to to get it in and I could tell it was a decent size. “I had to use all my strength to stop myself from being pulled off the pontoon into the river. “When I got it into the shallows my son-in-law went down to have a look and he told me it was massive. “It was gone 11pm and dark so we secured it for the night on a 100metre length of rope and came back first thing in the morning. “There are three weights of catfish that get anglers excited, 100lbs, 150lbs, and then the magical 200lbs mark. “When the scales went past the 200 mark and up to 226lbs I knew it was the fish of a lifetime."
The biggest freshwater fish ever caught in Europe was a catfish that tipped the scales at 243lbs in Italy
great catch :clap: