Did you catch the red fish?
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The require you to wear down their stamina like any other fish before catching. They have large stamina pools, but they actually don't regenerate stamina any faster than the blue fish, meaning that after you've fought him for a while, he's weakened and you can reel him in. He puts up a hell of a fight before that though.