In this video, a fisherman is seen wrestling with something on the end of his line. With little evidence of what might lie just below the surface, the quiet water does little more than produce a few seamless ripples for the first minute. But after a few minutes, the shadow of something large begins to rise and loom directly beneath the fisherman and his boat, as companion looks on in disbelief.
After a few more moment of reeling and tugging back and forth against the fishes pull, watching the pole bend and bend as if ready to snap at any moment, the large fish suddenly comes into view at the top of the water.
He soon reels in the catch of a lifetime—a massive 280-pound catfish you will just have to see to believe. They quickly drag it over to the water’s edge and pose with it for photos and the video, leaving viewers completed speechless as to its length and weight. With a mouth wide enough to seemingly swallow a small person whole, you will be left terrified of jumping into any water home to catfish after seeing this video for yourself. You just have to see it to believe it.