N.W.T. fisherman lands big fish eating another big fish

At first, LesBlake had no idea what he was looking at.

"I froze for what seemed like 20 seconds or something. I was going, 'what what IS that?'"

Turns out, it was a fish eating a fish more specifically,a whopping 90-centimetre lochewith its mouth wrapped around a whitefish, about half its size.

"He had a pretty good grip on the whitefish," Blake said.

Blake foundthe pair whilepulling a day's catch out of his Uncle Georgie's fishing nets, which had been under the ice in the Red River near Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T.The whitefish was caught in the net by the tail.

It seems the loche also known as burbot, or lingcodhad beenjust passing by, and spotted a seemingly convenient lunch.

"The loche wasn't even in the net at all.So when we pulled it out, the loche was freehe was just wagging his tail, and hanging onto the whitefish," Blake said.

"So that was really something to see."

Blake was impressed Uncle Georgie, less so.

"Maybe 20,30years ago, when he first started, he used to see bigger loche, eating bigger fish," Blake said.

"That I would have loved to have seen."