{"id":13504,"date":"2013-11-08T03:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=13504"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T10:29:36","slug":"angling-lines-regular-catches-world-record-albino-catfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/angling-lines-regular-catches-world-record-albino-catfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Angling Lines&#8217; Regular Catches World Record Albino Catfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regular customer Bernie Campbell has gone and broken the albino catfish world record&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bernie has won a place in the record books after reeling in a huge 8ft long albino catfish in Spain. Fishing for the week with son Gary, Bernie caught the 206lb monster near Barcelona.\u00a0It is believed to be a world record for an albino wels catfish,\u00a0the previous record was a 196lb beast caught last year.\u00a0After spending half an hour wrestling with the mammoth fish,\u00a0he finally banked his prize at midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Bernie had to say;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u201cWhen you pick up the rod, you can reel in and it\u2019s as if there\u2019s nothing there until its about 40 yards from the bank \u2013 then it hits you.\u00a0This one nearly pulled me in three or four times.\u00a0You brace yourself and hope for the best.\u00a0I\u2019ve never caught an albino catfish and I was determined to get one this time.\u00a0As it came in I saw it was an albino, then looked again and Gary said to me \u2018it\u2019s massive!\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13505\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13505\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13505\" alt=\"Albino Catfish \" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Bernie and son Gary with the record breaking 206lb catfish<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13506\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13506\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13506\" alt=\"Albino Catfish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish2.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish2.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2013\/11\/catfish2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The monster Albino Wels<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u201cI phoned my wife to tell her, she\u2019s absolutely fantastic allowing me to come out and go fishing all the time.\u00a0She thought I was winding her up until she saw the pictures.\u00a0I\u2019m absolutely over the moon. The world record could go tonight or it could go in 10 years.\u00a0It does feel a bit unreal, but I\u2019ve had so many messages congratulating me. It\u2019s a great feeling.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A huge well done from all of us at Angling Lines!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular customer Bernie Campbell has gone and broken the albino catfish world record&#8230; Bernie has won a place in the record books after reeling in a huge 8ft long albino catfish in Spain. Fishing for the week with son Gary, Bernie caught the 206lb monster near Barcelona.\u00a0It is believed to be a world record for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,904],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp-fishing-news","category-catfish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}