Imagine that you are on vacation and go fishing without any pretensions. However, he ends up catching a huge and very rare fish! That's what happened to the British Dean McEwan, who caught a giant catfish of almost 200 kg. The 36-year-old man managed to catch a giant catfish, of the species Pangasianodon gigas, also called giant catfish. He was on vacation in Thailand. Learn more about the case as you read on.
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It was not easy to catch the giant and rare catfish.
According to information from the newspaper Extra, the British man fought for almost 1h30 with the catfish until he managed to hook it. Once captured, he took a picture and weighed the animal: 190.5 kg. “It was really an endurance test,” said the fisherman.
The fish was caught in the Palm Tree Lagoon in the city of Ratchaburi. It took three men to get him. They used a net to immobilize the animal in order to weigh and measure it.
The Brit says it was around noon local time when he hooked the big fish. It was very hot and it was just time for him to take his eyes off the float, which was in the water for some time, to notice the spool line coming off the rod.
“I've caught some catfish before, so I knew what I was getting into,” said the man. He just didn't know the fish captured would be so big and heavy.
In the end, the giant catfish was released back into the water.
Big but not that big
The giant catfish caught by the British is very large, but not the largest ever seen. In the Guinness Book there is an account of a fish of this species weighing 293 kg. This animal was also fished in the thailand, in 2005.
The species is typical of the Mekong River, which flows through Southeast Asia. The fish is endangered and was listed as "critically endangered" by the World Conservation Union in 2003.
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