In the biggest catch of his life, angler Ditch Ballard caught a humongous monster of a catfish in a Spanish river, weighing a staggering 222 pounds. The 8.2-foot (2.5-meter) long catfish—almost the length of a small car—dragged the British fishing enthusiast’s boat almost a mile downriver as he fought to hold onto it.
Ballard, who runs angling holiday company Ebro Mad Cats in southern Catalonia was out carp fishing one icy night in the dead of winter when he detected a bend in his rod. In a Facebook post describing his jaw-dropping experience, Ballard set the scene:
“With an air temp of minus 3 the wind chill actually made it feel unbearable on that January night. I was carp fishing, but the bend in the little 10-foot rod suggested I was likely attached to a catfish!”…