| CLOVER, S.C., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A fishing trip brought a South Carolina man an unexpected 40th birthday present -- a fish with "teeth like a human." SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS Frank Yarborough, of Clover, caught the pacu, almost five pounds and 20 inches, in Lake Wylie. It's an exotic South American species related to the piranha. "It's definitely the strangest thing I ever caught in Lake Wylie", Yarborough told the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. "We had all kinds of people looking at it, taking pictures of it, Goggling it at the boat landing." South Carolina state biologists measured the pacu at 4.98 pounds and 19.5 inches. "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, which is now in Yarborough's freezer, to find out how old it is and how it got so big. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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