Hook, line and stinker: Japanese angler catches giant catfish in Hong Kong river, but declares it most awful fish he’s ever eaten
Hiroshi Hirasaka of ‘Monsters Pro Shop’ fame finds his 110 cm prize smells so bad that ginger, milk and sake can’t make it taste good
A Japanese angler’s pictorial story of how he tackled and cooked a gigantic catfish from a Sheung Shui river drew a massive audience online.
Hiroshi Hirasaka, the famed chief editor of the “Monsters Pro Shop” blog, who is known for his pursuit of huge, strange creatures, said he was drawn to the city after learning there were fish there, living in dirty water.
His target was a scaly beast from the genus Clarias.
Hirasaka said on the blog that he spent days next to a Sheung Shui river, believed to be the Ng Tung River, that was incredibly and unbearably dirty and foul smelling.
The angler initially thought there would be no fish in such polluted water, which he described as looking like “honey dew cream soda”, but he was surprised to see many catfish.
After several fruitless hours of using real bait, he turned to lures.