Sorry, I have to ask which of the two specimens do you mean....
My biggest fish i caught before digital photgraphy was available:
20 pound sea trout in denmark, using a scented twister as bait that I used out of resignation because i thought there were no fish at all on that beach... but then...boom...
42 pound cod, I thought i was pulling an old car out of the 85 meters depth i caught it in.