Teen fishing ace snares a massive 100-pound catfish bigger than her

By Ollie Buckley via SWNS

Hannah Truscott, 15, specializes in netting catfish and has now caught her own personal best - a 96lb 4oz beast.

She was fishing with her father Paul at White Lakes in Essex on Friday, August 13 - and thought the date would bring her bad luck.

But she went on to catch six big catfish totaling almost 400lb, including her near 100lb whopper.

“She didn’t think she’d catch anything because of the date but I said not everyone can be that unlucky," her father said. “Then within two or three minutes she caught that one. It beat her personal best by 25 pounds."

He said plenty of people who have been fishing for years can't match his daughter's catches.

"There are men who haven’t caught one over 40 pounds and they’ve been doing it years," he said. "I think she’s had about 23 in the last four years over 40 pounds.''

Paul, from Derbyshire, says he first took Hannah fishing when she was about six years old - but she’s now a natural.

“I taught her how to play them (catfish),” he said. “From then on I’ve left her to it and said, ‘I’m not going to help you’ and over time she’s just mastered it. She’s learnt how to hang on, she’s spot on at playing them. She’s not your normal kid – she just fishes.''