New world record brown trout.

44lbs 5 oz from New Zealand. Crazy. Sounds like it was caught below a fish farming operation and probably had been feeding on the loose food from there for years. What an absolute toad!

https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/brown-trout-certified-igfa/

Freakish!

That's a HOG!!!

I had the chance to fish those canals a few years back.  10-20lb fish are considered small over there and often release them. 

Must have been like pulling in a log.

Similar in ways . 

that fish... what the ????

that cat... looks like an old boss from work

Yes, the hydro canals near Twizel on the south island. The fish there are famously huge, grotesquely obese. When I travel, I tend not to bring an arsenal of fly rods, and my 4 piece 5 weight wouldn't be up to that task.

daaaaaaaang what a monster!