During a two-day stop in South Siberia, Vladimir Putin was "chasing" a giant pike for two hours, but finally managed to catch it, Dmitry Peskov told reporters, Sputnik reports.
"The president had a nice spearfishing trip. He was chasing a pike for two hours, could not shoot it, but at the end he made it," Peskov said.
The Kremlin spokesman also said he does not know precisely whether Putin caught more fish than in 2013, when the president managed to catch a 21-kilogram pike from Lake Dokpak-Khol in the southeastern Russian Republic of Tuva.