Left reeling by 222lb world record carp
IT took Tim Webb 90 exhausting minutes to reel in this huge fish – but it paid off when he found he had landed the world’s biggest carp.
The British angler lured the monster with a bait of bread and rice before the gruelling battle at a lake in Ban Pong, Thailand.
His catch weighed 222lb, nearly 16 stone, beating the Siamese carp record by more than 70lb. Mr Webb owns a fishery nearby and bought the carp from the lake owner for his own waters, paying a sum thought to be several thousand pounds.
The fisherman, 57, originally from Crawley, West Sussex, said: ‘As soon as I felt it on the end of my line I knew I had something special. I was elated but shattered afterwards.’