An angler caught the gigantic wels catfish in the murky waters of the River Po, in Italy, where the previous world record for the largest catfish was set just 2 months ago.

Hooking a Giant Wels Catfish from a Float Tube. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Thibault Leg (@titifish49) Impressively, Thibault Legendre’s personal best 272-centimeter wels catfish.

Have you ever seen a fish eat a bird? Probably not, but that’s exactly what the Wels catfish is capable of doing. This video ...

While Ballard’s fish is a giant by any standard, it’s shy of the River Ebro record by 28 pounds. The International Game Fish Association all-tackle record for wels catfish is 297 pounds, 9 ounces, ...

Incidentally, the world record for a wels catfish is 297 pounds, 9 ounces caught by Attila Zsedely in the river Po in Italy on March 11, 2010, according to the International Game Fish Association ...

An angler has described his surprise after reeling in a Wels catfish from a Berkshire fishing lake. Anthony Gee was fishing at Dinton Pastures Country Park in Wokingham when he caught the invasive ...

He loves catfish because they are just so big. We were in Spain for a week and he caught the big catch was his last fish of the trip.” Read Next: Italian Angler Catches Pending World-Record Wels ...

A giant catfish weighing over 200 pounds has been reeled in by an angler after an hour-long battle. British angler Ditch Ballard had been fishing for carp in the River Ebro in Spain when a bend in ...

Related: Watch Giant Wels Catfish Beach Themselves While Hunting Pigeons Since Biancardi opted to release his fish, it won’t beat Zsedely’s 2010 catch. Instead, it qualifies for IGFA’s newly ...

This video from BBC Earth shows a Wels catfish eating a pigeon whole. ... A Giant Catfish Eats Pigeons in One Gulp. Sonny Haugen. June 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM. Copied; ...

A fisherman in England landed a 133-pound wels catfish at a catch-and-release pay lake in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, that apparently would qualify as a British record, and by a lot. The catch by ...