A fishing trip brought a South Carolina man an unexpected 40th birthday present – a fish with “teeth like a human.” Frank Yarborough caught the pacu in Lake Wylie. The pacu is an exotic South American species related to the piranha. “It’s definitely the strangest thing I ever caught,” Yarborough said. “We had all kinds of people looking at it and taking pictures of it,” Yarborough said. South Carolina state biologists said the fish weighed 4.98 pounds and was 19.5 inches long. “That’s the biggest one we’ve seen out of Lake Wylie,” said Wes Stewart of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Biologists want to take a sample of the fish’s brain to find out how old it is and how it got so big.
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