Mr Reitz, who started fishing in 2017, said: “I’m an amateur, I go for the peace and quiet and if I catch, I catch.
“This was just luck, I think. My friends were in their tents, and they might have been a bit jealous.
“We started panicking a bit when it came to pulling it out. People were trying to tell me what to do but I didn’t listen.
“It was a monster.”
The catfish, which has been released, was nicknamed Scar.
