Boy, 11, catches world’s biggest carp that’s just a few lbs lighter than him

Schoolboy Callum scored the kind of catch lifelong anglers can solely dream of (Image: StuartPettit/BNPS)

A schoolboy from Kent has set a brand new file after catching a fish virtually the scale of him.

Callum Pettit, 11, pulled an enormous seven stone carp out of a lake close to Reims in France, the most important ever for a junior angler.

It took 20 minutes to reel the fish in and when it was placed on the scales, it dawned on him and pop Stuart that he was certain for the file books.

At 96lbs 10ozs, the whopping catch was only some kilos lighter than Callum and virtually twice the scale of his dad’s private greatest catch in 30 years of angling.

The fish, nicknamed Massive Lady, went for Callum’s particular banoffee-flavoured bait.

It was solely when Stuart, 40, went to elevate the fish right into a touchdown web by the aspect of the financial institution that it dawned on him it was one of many largest carp fish in Europe.

Different anglers gathered round to observe the momentous catch.

A video taken on Stuart’s GoPro digicam captured the second Callum noticed it for the primary time.

Stuart, from Ashford, Kent, mentioned: ‘It's a as soon as in a lifetime fish and Callum has caught it aged 11. The place does he go from right here?

‘He would have extra of an opportunity of successful the lottery than catching an even bigger carp than that.’

Callum mentioned: ‘I couldn’t consider how massive it was and my arms had been actually aching afterwards.’

The teenager took up fishing together with his dad as a toddler and his earlier largest catch was a mirror carp that weighed 29lbs.

Dad and son had been sleeping in a bivvy ten when a rod alarm went off at about 6am on a visit postponed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stuart mentioned: ‘With larger fish they don’t cost off across the lake, they're like a useless weight. All Callum might do was maintain on.

The enormous fish is likely one of the largest confirmed catches in Europe angling (Image: StuartPettit/BNPS)

‘He performed the fish for about 20 minutes, slowly pulling it up and winding it in direction of him.

‘We didn’t have any concept of the scale of it till we acquired it into the web and even then we thought it might have been a 60lbs or 70lbs fish.

‘The proprietor of the fishery got here out and recognized it because the Massive Lady. It was the most important fish I've ever set eyes on.’

The world file for a carp stands at 112lbs 14oz for a mirror carp caught at a fishery in Hungary by Dutchman Michel Schoenmakers in 2018.

And the most important carp ever caught by a British angler is a 105lbs 14oz mirror specimen by Ian Burton on the identical lake in 2019.

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