Tall fishing tales abound in Australia’s remote north, but few are as rich as 19-year-old Keegan Payne’s.
The Northern Territory youth was on a fishing trip with one of his sisters when he snagged the ultimate prize on the Katherine River early on Sunday morning — an elusive barramundi worth A$1 million (£520,000).
The specially tagged ‘barra’ had evaded thousands of anglers for nine years. The fish, which measured more than two feet long, was the top prize in a fishing competition intended to lure tourists and fishermen to Australia’s far north in the quieter wet season months.
Payne won a million Australian dollars after reeling in the barramundi in the Northern Territory fishing competition
MILLION DOLLAR FISH
But in the nine years the competition has been running nobody had ever caught the million-dollar tagged fish — until Payne threw a line into the river
