Huge trout banked...from a canal!

This large brown trout caught from a canal in Yorkshire is likely to go down as one of the most surprising catches of the season.

The impressive game fish was landed by Jamie Brearley, who was deadbaiting for pike on his local Wakefield Canal, and was just packing up his kit to head for home when his bite alarm sounded.

“I’ve been fishing the canal every week for nearly three months,” he told us,

“and this was the first bite I’ve had!”

“I’m absolutely chuffed to bits with the fish, though, which I reckon weighed around 8lb. All that time, effort and resilience certainly paid off!”

Jamie Brearley’s impressive canal trout fell to a deadbait