Woz and a surgeonfish (Photo: IGFA)
California angler Steve Wozniak would be the world’s greatest player of our little Name that Fish Game. “Woz” has fished in 61 different countries across the globe in pursuit of catching and documenting 1,000 different species of fish. And he’s getting close. A few exotics on a trip to Hawaii in June got him to 990 and he figures that he should achieve his goal sometime in the not-so-distant future.
“A couple of trips should put me in shouting distance,” said Wozniak. “I’m hoping to get to Norway, Egypt and to the Andaman Islands near India in the Indian Ocean in the next several months, so I have a pretty good shot in 2010. If not, 2011 is the year. It’s getting close.”
In addition to being perhaps the world’s most prolific catcher of different species, Woz is also looking at several of his latest catches maybe getting considered as new IGFA World Records.
To see some of the strange and unusual fish he’s been catching lately, read on…
A face only a mother could love...the monkfish, not Woz!
Steve and an Apache Trout
Masheer from India
Bluegill on steriods: A Sicklefish
A small convict: When you're going for 1,000...they're not all going to be big.
Nope...not a giant burned marshmallow...but a burrfish instead!
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Very impressive, Just wondering you must of caught an American Shadd?
I’m sure Woz has American shad already checked off his list…probably hickory shad, threadfin and anything else with “shad” in it too.
hell with the fishin i would rather have what he’s spending to do this….. is this the same steve that helped invent the apple computer?
Waaaaaaaaay too Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!