Many an angler has waxed poetic about “the big one” that got away. But Zeb Hogan has a real fish tale: an actual catch of the world’s largest known freshwater fish.
It happened as the University of Wisconsin biologist was trekking across Mongolia, part of an 18-month scientific effort to study the world’s largest fish. While there, Dr. Hogan got the message he had been hoping for: an e-mail describing a newly caught catfish the size of a grizzly bear.