A Scots fisherman landed a monster tuna just months after obtaining one of only 15 commercial licences for the fish in the UK.

Angus Campbell caught the bluefin tuna while fishing off Harris.

At a whopping 353kg – around 800lbs – it is the first to be caught in Scotland this year and thought to be the biggest landed anywhere in the UK this season.

Weighting more than a Harley Davidson motorbike, it was a battle to pull it on board and shocked by its size, Mr Campbell posed for pictures next to his catch to show the scale.

The 64-year-old and his crewman Christopher Gunn, 49, were out on Wednesday when they caught the beast.

He said: ‘It took about an hour and 40 minutes. There were just the two of us so it took a bit longer.

‘Our lines are for 200lbs and this was 800lbs so we had to be gentle and make sure we don’t break the lines.’

The giant has since been sold locally with the skipper at Isle of Harris Sea Tours and Kilda Tours laughing: ‘It will feed a good few folk for sure.

‘It’s great that it can be used locally.’

It is not the first time the pair have landed a bluefin tuna.

In September 2013 the duo and James Morrison took an hour to haul in a 515lbs catch – the first caught by rod and reel in Scottish waters.

The fish is considered one of the most expensive in the world and are highly prized for both big game angling and Japanese cuisine.

Although common around Scotland’s shores in the past, their numbers were depleted by the 1990s due to overfishing.

Earlier this week, Clyde Cetacean Sightings which tracks the appearance of whales, dolphins and porpoises around the Clyde Marine Area in the west coast, filmed a massive bluefin tuna – estimated to be some 5ft in length and 500lbs in weight – circling the waters.