Specie: Spanish wels catfish
Weight: 80-something pounds
Location: river Ebro
A giant Spanish wels catfish from the river Ebro. This one of many large fish that my friends and I have taken from this river. We have finally cracked how to catch them but only after a long hard struggle. This fish weighed 80-something pounds and was important because it marked the turning point in our fortunes. Paul Garner and I had spent two weeks loosing one fish after another before we got this one. I have had several similar sized fish since but none quite as special as this one. We really worked very hard for it. It was our first fish on a new, to us anyway, stretch of water and took a carp livebait.