Historically British anglers have had to travel far and wide to tangle with fish weighing over the 100lb mark, but these days there are more truly enormous specimens in our waters than ever before.
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Andrew Taylor is the latest angler to have done battle with a freshwater giant on home soil, having just caught this impressive 150lb sturgeon.
The Birmingham angler was fishing a water in the Midlands and took the fish on a large piece of luncheon meat.
"I'd had a few bleeps on the alarm and struck into something that took off like a steam train!" he told us.
"In the pitch black I could hear the big fish splashing and crashing out in the lake. I just knew it was one of the monsters."
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