What a cat-ch! Eight-foot fish weighing a whopping 150lbs reeled in by husband-wife duo... and it's likely to beat the UK record

A husband and wife fishing team have caught a record-breaking catfish that weighed a staggering 150lbs. It took Shaun and Chloe Ing 90 minutes to reel in the eight-foot long fish from Chigborough Fisheries, in Essex, and two friends to lift it from the water. Upon weighing the enormous marine animal, it was found to have been seven pounds heavier than the existing British record, a 143lb catfish caught in Essex in 2024. It took Shaun and his wife 90 minutes to reel in the eight-foot long fish from Chigborough Fisheries, in Essex, and two friends to lift it from the water The couple said they had just ordered a Chinese takeaway that had arrived as the fish bit the bait, which ended up being ruined in the scuffle 'At one point I gave the line to Chloe and she was almost taken off her feet by the sheer force of it. While they caught a massive fish, it pales in comparison to the world record for a caught catfish, which goes to the 9.4ft-long beast weighing 280lbs caught by Italian angler Alessandro Biancardi in the River Po, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.