Man Catches World’s Biggest Carp After Exhausting 80-minute Long Battle

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7/3/2019|Updated: 7/3/2019

A British angler has caught the world’s biggest carp after an 80-minute-long battle on a lake in Thailand.

“After 80 minutes I finally brought it to the bank, and I couldn’t believe my eyes” John Harvey, 42, told the Daily Mail. “It was absolutely enormous, the pictures do not do it justice at all.”

Venus Upadhayaya

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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