What did the guy who caught the world's biggest yellow fin tuna say, when describing his 300lb catch? Nothing. Greg Pickering had no need to lie. The monster was harpooned underwater, so the record-breaker just floated next to it, his arms by his sides. Kudos.

(That harpooned underwater statement sounded tautological at first, thinking that harpoons were only used below water. But of course that is plain dumb. Hello, Captain Ahab and Jaws.)

Anyway, the picture proved the size of the tuna beast and the proud hunter had no need to resort to elastic arms or embellish his story with sizes measured in factors of ten.

He made a lot of consumers happy too, providing sufficient meat for 42,000 kitty meals, or was it 300 tuna steaks?

Good day to dye?

In Peru there was no need for a hairstylist to explain with his arms how tall his award-winning hairdo looked. With hair piled over 6 foot high, not even gibbon man could reach that far above his head to explain the magnitude of the look. Take a look at the video of a Peruvian hairdo with a difference.

The world's biggest liar

Will Ritson, must have used his arms a few times in conversation.

Will claimed that the turnips in Wasdale were so big that after the dalesfolk had "quarried" into them for their Sunday lunch, they could be used as sheds for the Herdwick Sheep from the fells.

That must have raised a few eyebrows. But whole heads of hair have been twitching at the lies told at an annual competition in Ritson's honor. Last year's winner, licensee Mike Naylor, told of another sea monster caught by his mate, James Pond, Bubble-O-Seven. The details remain secret, so we can only conjecture that it was so big you could have driven a bus inside its nostril and done a three point turn, without even touching a nasal hair in the process.

So, what will he dream up this year? That Britain has the greatest number of angling "That big" stories per square kilometer of any country in the world?

More fisher folk lies

Well there are certainly more anglers than soccer players in Britain, so it isn't hard to imagine millions of outstretched arms working hard in the next coarse fishing season - especially when the lying gits get home! That propensity to move their hands repeatedly while describing the fish they threw back in, is the real reason, though, why the canoe community refer to fishermen as Wankers.