Here are some more notable huge catches that may or may not have made the record books.
A monster catfish which looks big enough to swallow a man whole has been caught in the Po delta of Italy. It weighed 127kg and is being claimed as the biggest ever caught there.
August 2014: Andy Harman reeled in this gigantic 10-stone Siamese carp after battling it for an exhausting 50 minutes before finally getting the better of it. Mr Harman, from Reigate, Surrey, had been holidaying at a fishing resort in Thailand when he hooked the mammoth fish.
August 2006: Fishmonger Mark Watson with the 58lb swordfish which was caught off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland.
2July 2003: Detlef Berschens holds the massive catfish which apparently ate a pensioner’s paddling dog in Moenchengladbach, Germany. The killer catfish, measuring more than 1.5 metres and weighing 50kg, grabbed the elderly woman’s dachshund puppy as it swam a few metres from the lake’s shore.
Martin Lock braved sub zero temperatures in just a t-shirt to land the World’s biggest carp. Martin, from Kent, jumped out of his lakeside tent near Bordeaux, in France, at 6am to net the monster fish that weighed in at 94lbs
Bidders look at a giant bluefin tuna on a cart after it was sold at auction at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. The tuna fetched a record 32.49 million yen, or nearly $396,000, in the first auction of the year at the world’s largest wholesale fish market in Japan.
May 2005: Tim Pruitt, of Alton, Illinois, holds a 124-pound blue catfish that he hooked while fishing on the Mississippi River near Alton. The fish is 58 inches long and 44 inches round. It took Pruitt more than a half-hour to drag the fish into his boat. It is the largest of its kind in state history, and is expected to be certified a world record by the International Game Fish Association. The fish has been kept alive and will be on display in a tank at the Cabela’s Outfitter store in Kansas City, Kan., according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Not technically a fish but a cephalapod mollusc (and yummy cooked in butter and garlic), some New Zealand fishermen in the Ross Sea caught what’s thought to be the largest squid ever found anywhere in the world, weighing an estimated 450kg.
A giant Mekong catfish which was caught in May 2005 by local fishermen in Chiang Khong, northern Thailand. Weighing in at 292 kg it is one of the biggest ever caught.Wild populations of the iconic Mekong giant catfish will be driven to extinction if hydropower dams planned for the Mekong River go ahead, says a new report by WWF. More species of giant fish occur in the Mekong River than in any other river on Earth. Populations of the giant stingray and other large-bodied Mekong fish are in decline.
2007: Bev Street of Skegness smashed the record for the biggest freshwater fish caught by a woman in Britain. The 66lb monster catfish was snared on Bluebell lakes Northamptonshire after a 30 minute battle. Bev has beaten Geogina Ballantine’s 85 year old record for the largest fish caught by a woman.
June 2009: British fisherman Ian Welch landed the (previous) biggest ever freshwater fish during a trip to Thailand. 11 stone Ian landed the 55 stone monster after a 90 minute battle that nearly pulled him over the side of his boat The enormous stingray has a deadly foot long barb in its tail.
September 2012: Happy angler Brian Humphries with the giant mirror carp named Parrot which he caught after trying for 4 years. The 48-year-old angler reeled in a 59lb 14oz carp at a secret lake in Berkshire. And he said he was in a state of disbelief when he realised he had the fish, known across the UK as The Parrot, on his line, having been hunting him for four years.
The world record for the largest freshwater fish caught by rod and line has been broken with the catch of this stunning stingray. The gigantic flat fish that has a lethal barb measured over 8ft in width, 14ft in length and weighed almost 800lbs (57 stones). It was caught by American TV nature conservationist Jeff Corwin on the Maekong River in Thailand with the help of fishing guides from UK-based Fishsiam Ltd. It took two hours to reel in the monster catch, with several men on board a small fishing boat having to take turns on the rod. After getting the ray alongside, it was then taken into a specially-prepared pen where it took seven people to lift the ray out of the water so it could be properly measured. It is impossible to actually weigh such fish using scales due to their sheer size so a tried and tested formula of measuring its width, length and girth to calculate it weight.