It’s kind of like an amazing dream coming to life. Your adorable little goldfish grows into a giant, chasing you around a pond.
Only in this case, 11-year-old Luke Hebb wasn’t dreaming when he fished a 16-pound koi out of Lacombe Lake in St. Albert Wednesday morning.
“I thought it was little at first, but then we weighed it and it turned out to be massive,” Hebb told CBC News Thursday of the 30-inch long monster.
Luke and his grandfather, Robert Aloisio, go fishing together a few times each year.
The pair were out searching for crayfish Wednesday when they hooked some hot dogs to their fishing line for bait at the lake in a northwest St. Albert park.
“We set
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