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Eric Clapton reeled in the biggest salmon caught in Iceland this year

Eric Clapton might be known for making records, but he recently caught a fish so big that he shattered one in Iceland (sorry). While on vacation in the small nation that has turned out to be surprisingly good at soccer, Clapton reeled in the biggest salmon caught there this year. It took him two and a half hours.

At least that’s the word from the guide service Vatnsdalsa that accompanied him on his epic journey. The service wrote the story up in the most incredible blog post of all time, and has since changed its business’ picture on Facebook to one of Clapton with the fish.

The best part of this whole thing, however, is that the blog post set a record of its own, and that’s for “most deeply buried lede of all time.” Whoever wrote this managed to refer to the very famous musician as “one of our anglers” for the entirety of the post until the very last paragraph, when they say:

“The picture on the right is showing Eric Clapton which was the angler with the fish and of course we congratulate him with this fantastic fish.”

Here are the other best part of the write-up, which was clearly done by someone who doesn’t speak English very well, making it all the more amazing:

  • “No questions asked but in his first casts there was a nice salmon that showed the fly an interest and rolled over it with a splash without hooking himself.”

  • “…at that point everyone knew that this was no ordinary salmon.”

  • “Both the angler and the salmon were totally done after this fight but both the angler and the salmon recovered after few minutes.”

I feel that now would be a good time to tell you that Clapton has sung about fish before. There’s a J.J. Cale song that he and Tom Petty once covered called “The Old Man And Me,” and it goes like this:

“I wake up in the morning, thinking ’bout my troubles
I go down to the water and they pass away
And when the old man comes a-floating down the river
‘Hey, old man, are they bitin’ today’
‘Hey, old man, are they bitin’ today'”

Foreshadowing, perhaps?

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