Posted on 09/18/2021 8:49:20 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
A 15-year-old girl caught a catfish that exceeded her height on Friday the 13th.
Hannah Truscott went fishing with her father Paul, 51, in Essex County, England, on the superstitious day, according to South West News Service (SWNS).
The pair traveled more than 100 miles from their Derbyshire home to the county’s White Lakes.
According to the teen’s father, she had doubts about their fishing trip because it was Friday, Aug. 13.
"She didn’t think she’d catch anything because of the date, but I said not everyone can be that unlucky," Truscott reportedly told SWNS.
Hannah’s first catch of the day was a 96-pound, 4-ounce catfish, which required two sets of hands to hold up its incredibly long body.
Truscott told SWNS the catch is her "personal best" and beat her last record by 25 pounds.
"There are men who haven’t caught one over 40 pounds, and they’ve been doing it years," Truscott told the British news agency. "I think she’s had about 23 in the last four years over 40 pounds.''
Hannah went on to catch five more catfish that day, which brought the total weight of her haul to nearly 400 pounds, SWNS reported.
Truscott told SWNS he and Hannah first went fishing together when she was around 6 years old. Since then, he said, she’s become a specialist in catching catfish.
"I’ve left her to it and said, ‘I’m not going to help you,’ and over time she’s just mastered it," Truscott told SWNS. "She’s learnt how to hang on, she’s spot on at playing them."
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Title should be: "Teen catches giant catfish minutes after doubting her luck, father says."
Perhaps the moderator can fix.
Wow
Those things get huge wiers catfish I think from some I’ve seen on the YouTube this ones sort of common..
Story would be a little better if the bait she used was included...
That ain’t no catfish. It’s a French submarine.
u r funny-lol
This particular species of catfish is from continental Europe and is not native to Britain, where it has no predators. It doesn’t seem to be closely related to American catfish.
[[Story would be a little better if the bait she used was included...]]
fake photos of herself no doubt- (catfishing)
So young to be a stink-bait expert.
This girl definitely puts me to shame.
“I think she’s had about 23 in the last four years over 40 pounds”
This sentence threw me off.
Somehow, I thought the article began by saying this 15 y/o girl was just getting started with fishing.
Sure ‘nuff. It sneaks up on you. Once I was fishing Accotink Creek, just south of Annandale, Va. Just junk fishing. A little hoot owl followed me down the trail in the trees, a half mile or so, curious. Even played peek-a-boo with me between bluegills. Then *wham*, a 24” channel cat in barely shin-deep water snatched my worm and gave me a helluva tussle. A few years later, I was fishing a private lake during the spring spawn at my wife’s cousin’s farm. Nailed about a half dozen smallies, some blues. Then my pole got doubled over by a 15” black crappie that didn’t take well too a soft bait trolling over his nest. I though he was another smallie on steroids. (Note: red is a go-to color in the south in springtime. Chicken livers lanced on a large gauge hook will produce buckets of catfish.)
Fried up with a few drops of Tobasco sauce. Yummy!🙂🙂
I sure wouldn’t like gutting that sucker....
Not into landing living fossil-type fish.
My favorite catfish bait is netted shad. Place them in a bucket with just enough water to cover them and leave on a garage roof for two days.
Lunkers love them!
I don’t gut catfish. I skin them, filet them and throw the rest away.
It looks like it is kin to american flathead. If you look you see the tail is square cut, not forked like a blue or a channel cat.
We skinned and gutted them. Fileting fish back then wasn’t in style. I’m 77. The other types...we scaled and gutted.
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