Man catches giant 120kg cannibal catfish

A fisherman in Italy has caught a giant cannibalistic fish weighing in at a hefty 120kg.

Dino Ferrari hooked the Wels catfish, measuring 2.7m in length, last week in the Po Delta in northern Italy, The Mirror reports.

It's so huge it could be the biggest catfish ever caught with a rod and reel.

Wels catfish can grow as long as 4m and weigh up to 390kg, although it is extremely rare to catch one over two metres long.

They are known to even eat pigeons who have strayed too close, and can live up to 80 years old.

Source: The Mirror