I caught a fish bigger than me... honestly! 
UK Source: Liverpool Echo 4/18/2008
I caught a fish bigger than me... honestly!
Fisherman Wayne Halsall spent 90 minutes in a battle of wits with this giant catfish on the banks of a Spanish river.

The 200lb fish was reeled in by the Kirkdale builder during a fishing holiday with a group of friends in the Spanish Pyrenees last month.

The father-of-four said: “All of a sudden, my rod nearly got dragged into the water. I got hold of it and it was like trying to stop a car.
 

“I spent an hour and a half before I caught it. One of the lads shouted, ‘it’s a monster’ when they saw it.”

The 51-year-old, who is 5ft 9ins tall, posed next to his catch to show just how big it was.

He said: “The fish was longer than I was and when we weighed it our scales would only go up to 200lbs so we know it was even heavier that.”

Wayne, who travels all over Europe to fish, returned the catfish to the river Ebro.

ECHO angling expert Dave Houghton said today: “You have to be quite fit and know what you are doing to catch a fish like that.”

ECHO essentials

THE biggest catfish caught was a 646lbs Mekong giant catfish, landed in Thailand in 2005.

 
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