Jeremy Wade, 53, spent weeks hunting for the fish in remote Papua New Guinea after locals reported a mysterious beast which was castrating young fishermen.
He finally unmasked the perpetrator as the Pacu fish – known locally as ‘The Ball Cutter’ – and managed to catch one in his small wooden fishing boat.
Back in 2011 we came up with ten other slang names for the “ball cutter.”
Hmm. Might be saying more about male of the species insecurity than fishing, all this, I reckon….
I once had a 30-pound-plus Patagonian sea-trout give me a VERY nasty look as I removed a size-8 greased-line, sparsely dressed black Soft Hackle from its mighty maw, but I didn’t squeal, just manfully returned it.
Far away and long ago, as W.H. Hudson once wrote.