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One angling guide from Thailand has managed to catch what is believed to be the largest carp ever caught in the history of sport fishing.

Fishing Adventures Thailand professional guide Kik’s carp was found to weigh some 265 pounds (120 kg) after he caught it on the Bung Sam Lan Lake on July 2nd.

The guide had only gone out to the waterway to test a new custom-built fishing rod he had been developing and ended up catching the largest Siamese giant carp ever recorded.

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タイの釣り師が265ポンド(120kg!)の巨鯉を釣り上げたというお話。
ちなみに今までの淡水魚世界記録は185kg の Arapaima gigas だそうです。
本当は 82kg だったらしいと言う情報が、コメント欄で指摘されました。
それは、それでスゴイですね。

ニューヒーロー誕生ですね。
しかし以前お伝えしたニュースでは 40.2kgだったのに一気に３倍とは…
世界は広いモノです。

A five-tonne shark, 10 meters (32.8 feet) in length and 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) in width, is seen after being caught by fishermen on the outskirts of Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu province, May 23, 2007. The shark has been bought by a businessman at a price of 100,000 RMB ($13,066 ), local media reported. Picture taken May 23, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) CHINA OUT
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中国、州江蘇省で捕獲された巨大鮫（重量5ｔ, 全長10m, 幅1.5m)のお話。

デカイです。さすが中国。

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone’s trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.

Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.
Boy Bags Wild Hog Bigger Than ‘Hogzilla’

アラバマ州、モンゴメリ在住の少年(11歳)が、体重 1,051ポンド (476.7kg)、体長 9フィート4インチ (2.85m) の巨大イノシシを仕留めたというお話。

デカイです。これはモンスタ？

ANGLER Graham Slaughter shows off his record-breaking carp catch — the first in the world to weigh more than 40 kilos.

It took him 20 minutes to land the mirror carp, which tipped the scales at a whopping 40.188kg (6st 3lbs). Graham, 42, of Worksop, Notts, said: “To be first to break the elusive 40kg mark is a great feeling.”
The Sun Online - News: Hook me, it’s a 6st carp

20分に及ぶ格闘の末、世界最大の鯉(40.188kg!)を釣り上げた釣り師グラハムのお話。

強烈にでかいです。
これは本当に鯉なんでしょうか？