Alexa Turness with the huge fish she hooked while on holiday in Spain
When you go on holiday with your long-time angling boyfriend it is perhaps not a good idea to show him up.
But Alexa Turness managed it in dramatic style when she became a record holder after reeling in a 215lbs catfish.
She managed to outdo boyfriend Kim Hamilton who could only muster a fish weighing 189lbs.
The 28-year-old, who only took up fishing to see more of her boyfriend, hooked the catch while on holiday in Spain after battling to reel it in for half an hour.
Delight! Alexa Turness, 28, pictured holding the huge fish she hooked while on holiday in Spain after battling to reel it in for half an hour. It was later released back into the water
The catfish was more than 1.5 times her weight and at 8ft 4in, stretched longer than the length of her body.
It was so big her boyfriend and tour guides feared she might get dragged into the river, and stood guard to catch her as she reeled it in.
The pair were spending a week with Catfish Tours on the River Segre in northern Spain and caught the fish on the third day.
Whopper: Alexa with the fish which was more than 1.5 times her weight and at 8ft 4in, stretched longer than her entire body
Miss Turness, an events director from Holland Park, west London, said: 'My boyfriend is really into fishing so when we got together seven or eight years ago I got into it too.
'It was a case of go fishing with him or don't see him. I wouldn't say I'm a specialist by any means and I don't know as much as my boyfriend.
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