now THIS is a catfish....
Submitted by bod on Wed, 2010-01-20 00:17
After having her picture taken with it, Mrs Penfold returned the catfish back into the water in good health.
97kg catfish, the biggest ever freshwater fish caught by a
British woman.
A bait of halibut pellets snared the 2.6metre catfish on the River Ebro near Barcelona Spain.
The previous record for the biggest fish caught in Britain by a woman is a 32kg catfish.
The only freshwater fish that grow to that size in the world are either sturgeon or catfish.
Edited from Daily Mail, 19th January 2010
Ganged
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Wow. Used too catchthem in
Wow. Used too catchthem in South Africa never that big, biggest was 7kg and went pretty hard.
Still learning
Riaz
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barber? they do get bigger
barber? they do get bigger than 7 too. my mate has a bass farm over there and we set our rods in with a big chunky of biltong. and man do those things fight hard. 4 snap offs on 30 pound line and landed one of about 9kg. such a good fight
scottnofish
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looks like she is
trying to increase there population in the first photo
Faulkner Family
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thats one big catfish. never
thats one big catfish. never new they grew that big.good to see it was returned to the water
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HuggyB
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the meekong giant catfish
is bigger than that, they can get up to 3m long and 300kg.
regardless, big bloody fish!
The Terrorist - coming to a fishing spot near you.........
wadetolley
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I hate
After living in Broome for years, i hate catfish...cant believe she released the pest . Bloody big one though!
7739ian
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Nothing wrong
with Pilbara or Kimberley salt water catfish - very tasty and i'm sorry i didn't try them back in the 60's when i lived in Port Hedland. The ruling philosophy was that only Aboriginals ate them - shows they were smarter than us.
johno
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Cat Master
Wow, great catfish... and just noticed her shirt...."CatMaster" classic lol
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The freshwater eel tailed
The freshwater eel tailed catfish that we get in the south west rivers are tiny compared to that!
Think the ones we get here grow to 2 kilos... they have some growing to do before they become a record size fish.
bod
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video - you wanna see a rod bend?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpdF8EzEm0Y
the lady who caught the catfish above is a 5'3" blind, 56yo grandmother and she caught it from the bank.
Great to see these monster fish released too.
wide open
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holy *&^%
thats a huge fish
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boys that is what I am
boys that is what I am fishing for in october, albeit, we are targeting the carp, we may have a day on the cats if the weather and conditions are right. Awesome fish!
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bod
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that'll be one of these then Rog
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Nice Video
hey bod that rod did bend! im amazed it didnt break.
Redfin 4 Life
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Nice Video
hey bod that rod did bend! im amazed it didnt break.
I wonder what he was using...
oooops dont know what happend there sorry about doubling up on the comment!