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A fisherman made quite the catch when he reeled in a 280-pound catfish.
Dino Ferrari captured the mammoth fish in the Po River in Italy, reports CNN. It measured almost nine feet in length and was caught with a spinning-reel rod.
Ferrari’s sponsor, Sportex, posted on its Facebook page several pictures of the leviathan dwarfing the fisherman.
He then struggled for 40 minutes to bring it onto the shore, where it was measured and weighed.
The catch could feed quite a lot of people, but Ferrari didn’t want to find out how many. Sportex said the fisherman decided to release his catch back into the river, so another angler may one day get the chance for a once-in-a-lifetime haul.
The largest catfish ever caught and documented was a 342-pound monster of the lau-lau variety. That catch was made in the Brazilian Amazon in 2009, according to the CNN report.