Talk about a big fish in a small pond!
Hunter Anderson, of Danville, Kentucky, says he reeled in a 20-pound koi fish — which resembles an oversize goldfish — when he baited a hook with a biscuit on Saturday.
“What you are witnessing is NOT national geographic! It is not a stolen image or edited photo! This is my brother!! Who is holding what could possibly be…. that pet goldfish we flushed when I was 9!!! ?…I swear, I thought you were dead bubbles!!! ? lol lol Caught in Danville ky y’all!! Oh my gosh don’t flush your pets! ???,” read a Facebook caption along with a photo of the fish posted on Hunter Anderson’s sister’s page. The post has since been shared thousands of times.
Anderson, who works part-time at a bait and tackle shop and has been fishing since he was a child, says he often competes in fishing tournaments — but he’s never enjoyed a prize quite like the big catch.
“It was one of the hardest fighting fish I’ve ever fought,” Anderson told CBS News. “I was screaming and jumping up and down as I had never seen anything like it.”
Anderson said he and his girlfriend were driving home from Frankfurt when they decided to make a stop to fish at the Boyle County pond. They had a rod in the car as well as some leftovers from a meal they had eaten earlier.
“Believe it or not, we ate at Lee’s earlier in the day, and I took a piece of a Lee’s biscuit and put it on a hook, threw it out there and that fish ate it,” Anderson said.
He said after taking the picture, he released the fish into the water.
“Maybe somebody else will catch it,” he said. “Maybe a kid will catch it and be as happy as I was. I was jumping for joy.”
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