Schoolboy lands 7ft fish

[TheGuru]

An Austrian schoolboy landed a seven foot fish on his first ever fishing trip.



Holger Vukovich, 14, had to use a winch to haul the animal out of the water because it was so heavy. He caught the eight stone cat fish when his grandad took him and a school friend out on his first fishing trip to a pond in his home town of Baumgarten.

He said: "We actually wanted to fish for carp, but almost straight away I hooked a fish. At first I was a bit scared because the fish pulled so hard I almost ended up in the water. "But then I managed to start reeling it in. The problem was it was so heavy that we needed to use a winch to drag it out. It took us about half an hour."

Vukovich is half a stone lighter and almost a foot and a half smaller than the fish he caught. He added: "I am going to have the head of the fish stuffed and will keep it as a trophy. I am going to be a regular fisher now although it will have to be good to beat the excitement of the first time."

Wow

[fifi2004]

Good on him. I say "Well done!"

[hellcat]

try get that one into the oven or on the BBQ
Nice one lads

[Mike]

Thats a lot of fish

[Waldo]

You'd need a lot of chips to go with that one - and a bathtub of batter

[Mike]

Good job they took a picture of it. Just imagine trying to convince people it was this big

Its a shame that they didnt return it alive back to the water