It took 90 minutes to land, 13 men to heave it out of the water... and weighed 55 stone(770 lbs) when they finally got it to the scales.
So it's little wonder that when Ian Welch first hooked the record stingray, it almost pulled him into the river.
Mr Welch, who weighs 111/2 stone, said: It dragged me across the boat and would have pulled me in, had my colleague not grabbed my trousers. - Daily Mail
