Four boys fishing at Punggol Park were ecstatic after they sucessfully reeled in a catfish as huge as one of the young anglers.
Videos uploaded to TikTok by the boys show the huge fish splashing about in the waters as it is slowly pulled to shore.
“It’s the pond giant; you caught a record fish! It’s a catfish, [a] giant one,” a boy exclaims in the video shared by user Dominick10118.
Another one of the friends, TikTok user Sub_todragoplayz, shared online that two other men had helped them haul the catfish — which he surmised to possibly be one of Singapore’s biggest — onto dry land.
The boys are seen yelling and jumping in excitement as the fish is laid on the ground. One of the boys even poses next to it for a photograph.
Catch and release
Speaking to Lianhe Zaobao, 13-year-old Xie Junhan (transliteration) said they had taken over 30 minutes to properly pull the fish out of the water.
