2023年6月15日 · Alessandro Biancardi, an Italian angler, pulled an enormous, 9.4-foot-long (2.85 meters) catfish from the shallow waters of the River Po in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. The catch beats...

Only under exceptionally good living circumstances can the wels catfish reach lengths of more than about 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Examples include the record wels catfish of Kiebingen (near Rottenburg, Germany), which was 2.49 m (8 ft 2 in) long and weighed 89 kg (196 lb).

2024年6月13日 · Since 2017 the length record has been beaten five times, including twice in the first half of this year. Here’s a look at 10 of the biggest whopper wels catfish ever caught on rod and reel.

2019年12月8日 · Wels Catfish. All-Tackle Record: 134.97 kilograms (297 pounds, 9 ounces), River Po, Italy. Not only is the wels one of the largest catfish species in the world, it is also one of the largest freshwater fish in the world with catches reported into the 600-pound range.

2024年7月13日 · At 285 cm, Biancardi’s wels catfish tops the current IGFA all-tackle world record for the species by a full 40 cm. That fish was pulled from the River Po by an angler named Attila Zsedely in...

2022年8月21日 · He caught this massive Wels catfish from Italy’s River Po on March 12, 2010. The fish weighed 297 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 96.46 inches long. The listed equipment in the records include a Spin Blade 3m rod and a Ryobi 6000 reel lined with Berkley Whiplash.

2023年6月6日 · With 10 witnesses looking on, the wels catfish stretched 9 feet, 4.4 inches long, qualifying it for the International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record for length by 1.6 inches,...

2023年6月16日 · Live Science reports that this new 9.4-foot-long catch beats earlier world records for the largest wels catfish that has ever been caught. It is just 1.6 inches bigger than the previous...

2023年6月10日 · An angler caught a 9-foot-long "monster" catfish in an Italian river after a 40-minute battle. The enormous wels catfish was likely a world-record breaker in length.

2023年6月1日 · As the MADCAT team pointed out, the standing all-tackle length world record for the species is a 281cm catfish that a pair of German anglers caught in April. That fish also came from the River Po, which along with Spain’s Rio Ebro, has given up more monster Wels catfish than anywhere else on Earth.