Illustrations

1. Spitzer and piranha

2. Piranhas frita

3. Viral image of Dino Ferrari and wels catfish

4. Widely circulated “man-eating” catfish image

5. Mullet rig for wels catfish

6. Spitzer and Lea with wels

7. The maw of the beast

8. Barracuda tornado

9. Cuda mouth

10. The big one

11. Butchered barracuda

12. Creole barracuda

13. Homemade rope fly and eBay rope lures

14. Four-pound spotted gar on rope lure

15. Green-and-white gar fly by Drew Price

16. Bizarre photo of a shark-finning wedding

17. Blue shark

18. Ghost trawler

19. Immature yellowfin tuna in Borneo

20. Mike Smedley and Michael Smedley with Montauk monster striper

21. Reverse snowman rig

22. French guy and his forty-six-pound mirror carp

23. Twenty-eight pounds, baby!

24. Spitzer and giant goldfish

25. Bon appétit!

26. Lee Merritt with fifty-four-pound big momma carp at Iktus

27. Fishin’ mission accomplished

28. Junior, Fabu, and Bossman

29. Finally got it!

30. Marlin-slashed skipjack tuna

31. Monster dorado money shot

32. Monster zander

33. The zander that didn’t get away

34. Spitzer bags a pike

35. Monster zander teeth

36. The mythical beast

37. Conger eel monster fish!

38. Moray monster fish!

39. Antonio and Spitzer with mini monstro octo

40. Spitzer and dogfish, Hansville, Washington