100lb-plus monster landed on just a size 10 hook!

A pair of carp anglers endured the battle of their lives this week, when during a session at their local water they hooked into a true monster of the deeps – an 106lb wels catfish.

Kyle Colledge and Joe North put a joint effort to bank the new Mill Pools lake record fish at the second time of asking, struggling to fit the exceptionally long specimen over the net.

Twenty-two-year-old Kyle told Angling Times:

“I knew it wasn’t a carp pretty much instantly and the near hour-long fight almost tore my arm off.

“It’s the fish of a lifetime, I have never seen anything that big – it bottomed out our scales with ease.”

Incredibly the enormous fish took just a tiny piece of black foam presented on a size 10 hook, tied to 10lb line, which was fished zig rig style.