A man caught a 2-meter-long underwater "monster" on his way to the Arctic Circle (3 photos)

After measuring and weighing his catch on the shore, the fisherman boasted of the result: 2.2 meters and more than 120 kilograms. He took a few photos as a souvenir.





43-year-old Lars Kohlsdorff appears to have caught the biggest fish of his life - a giant halibut measuring 2.2 meters. For many years, the man has been regularly traveling to Scandinavia with a group of fishing friends, and this time he stopped near Tromsø, Norway, which is 350 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle.

The day didn't start off very well, as Lars hadn't managed to land a single fish in two hours.

"Using a special technique we learned from the professionals in sea fishing, we lowered the bait into the water, but it must have gotten caught on something on the bottom. I grabbed the rod to pull it out, but suddenly the float started moving," says Lars, who inherited his love of fishing from his grandfather.



The three men struggled for 30 minutes to land the underwater "monster".

"I knew right away it must be a big halibut because it sank so quickly from 13 meters to 52 meters. It took us more than an hour to get it to the surface. It was a real team effort," Kohlsdorf recalls.

After measuring and weighing his catch on the shore, the fisherman boasted about the result: 2.2 meters and more than 120 kilograms. He took a few photos as a souvenir, and then released his catch.

"This was the fish of our lives," said one of the men, releasing the huge halibut into the water.