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By Jano Gibson
Related Story: Lake closed after fish bites woman It had been dubbed the "Loch Alexander monster" - a giant fish that had bitten an unsuspecting woman on the foot and forced the closure of a popular swimming spot in Darwin.

But it has been renamed "Clary the cod" after council rangers this morning pulled out the slippery toe-biter from Lake Alexander.

"I'm pretty certain this is the one," Roger Matthews said after luring the 800 millimetre long estuary cod with baby octopus bait.

"It's a ripper. You can certainly stick your foot in this thing's mouth."

Following the biting incident, Darwin City Council closed the lake for two days to allow rangers to catch the rogue fish.

"It had her toes and the front of her foot in its mouth, so it was a big fish," the council's chief executive, Brendan Dowd, said at the time.

Today's catch is estimated to weigh about four kilograms.

"I wouldn't put my hand in it's mouth, put it that way," Mr Matthews said.

He said the cod put up a 15 minute fight, made more difficult after the rangers' outboard motor stopped working.

"All good in the end," Mr Matthews said.

"Doesn't matter if we row, swim or helicopter our way to it - we would have done anything [to catch it]."

The fish was caught about 15 metres away from where the woman was bitten.

Rangers will continue to monitor the lake for the rest of the day, just in case there are more large cod out there.

Clary the Cod will not be going on the barbeque, Mr Matthews said.

Instead, it will be relocated to the ocean.