Joshua Davenport hauled the enormous, 152-pound catfish out of the well-known River Ebro in Spain
Joshua Davenport poses with the 152-pound wels catfish within the River Ebro. Ebro Mad Cats / Fb
A household trip to Spain became a world headline when 11-year-old Joshua Davenport caught a 152-pound wels catfish on the River Ebro over the past week of October. He and his mother and father, who’re additionally avid anglers, have been visiting from their dwelling in East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK on the time, Angling Times reports.
“It was about 11:30 a.m. and Josh was along with his cousin on the swim subsequent to us,” Davenport’s mom Lorna advised the Daily Mail. “You might be given a whistle to blow while you catch an enormous fish and Pete and I heard it and rushed over to them. Josh had received the rod and he was combating the catfish. The rod was bent over and it was apparent it was an enormous one.”
Davenport was fishing with halibut pellets when the catfish bit. It took Davenport 25 minutes and a few assist from the guides at Ebro Mad Cats to get the fish to the riverbank. He received some photographs with the monster catfish, which was hoisted in a sling for a weight measurement earlier than being launched again into the river.
“It’s his dream to catch one over 100 kilos so there was no approach he was going to let go,” Lora mentioned. “When he noticed it he simply couldn’t consider the scale of it. It took three adults and Josh to carry it.”
The Every day Mail reviews that Davenport’s catch broke a European report for the most important freshwater fish caught by a youth angler. Though it’s unclear what entity maintains a continent-wide fishing information e book, the huge wels catfish is sufficiently big to theoretically set a world report. The present all-tackle youth world report for the species weighed 131 kilos 6 ounces, in accordance with the International Game Fish Association, and Davenport’s fish outweighs it by greater than 20 kilos. That report fish was additionally caught from the River Ebro.
It’s unknown if Davenport will submit his wels catfish to the IGFA for report consideration, or if his fish would even be eligible for an all-tackle phrase report—because it was launched and never weighed on a licensed scale. Both approach, the feat is an unbelievable one, particularly for a child so obsessive about fishing.
“Fishing is all the things to Josh,” Lorna mentioned. “He received his first rod when he was 4 and caught his first catfish aged six which weighed 22 [pounds]. It has gone from there. He has caught hundreds of fish. He loves catfish as a result of they’re simply so large. We have been in Spain for every week and he caught the large catch was his final fish of the journey.”
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The River Ebro, which runs by means of the northeastern a part of Spain, is world-famous for its gargantuan Wels catfish. Ditch Ballard, who runs Ebro Mad Cats, let a 222-pound wels catfish tow him in his 12-foot aluminum boat down the River Ebro in February. The Ebro report for wels catfish weighed 257 kilos and was caught in October, in accordance with Angling Times.
Ebro Mad Cats posted an image of Joshua with the large wels on Nov. 3, giving him props for the tough catch.
“Younger Josh has critically impressed us all at Ebro Mad Cats this week, and immediately he has excelled himself as soon as once more with this [150-plus-pound] beast,” they wrote in a Facebook post. “Nice angling younger man, it’s been a pleasure having you right here.”
