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ADVERTISEMENT Who would have thought a catfish could be so stunning? Angler Martin Glatz from Duisburg, Germany, recently landed a spectacular fish called a "mandarin catfish" on October 4, 2021. At a lake in the Netherlands, Glatz caught the unique specimen while fishing with his twin brother. The German tackle company Angeldomäne sponsored Glatz, who was fishing with one of their prototype lures. Glatz tells F&S that he expected a big pike at first. "It resembled a big 47-inch pike," he says. After seeing the color of the fish, I panicked slightly and yelled at my brother to get the net." Glatz brought the fish to the boat, snapped a few pictures with it while admiring its vivid yellow coloring and released it. The fish is a wels catfish, a large species of catfish that is endemic to much of Europe. Despite their great size, wels catfish are generally grey or brown in color and look little like Glatz's catch. The condition, known as leucism, is...