81.8 pounds!!!
Greg Myerson is no stranger to giant stripers…he’s caught a bunch of them, including 68 and 71 pounders, but even he was surprised when the largest striper ever taken on rod and reel ate the live eel he was drifting over a submerged boulder near Outer Southwest Reef off the coast of Westbrook, Connecticut. The fish measured 54 inches and took 20 minutes to land and is a pending All-Tackle IGFA World Record.
And get this: the fish already had a hook and several feel of leader in its mouth, so somebody before Myerson had a shot at the record striper!
To see more pics and read all the gory details, go to
Field & Stream. Also, check out the 77 pounder taken off Block Island in June
HERE 
The rainbow that that it was a chinook...
Mark Adams of Pocatello, ID didn’t just break the Idaho State Record for rainbow trout with this 34.74 pounder, he blew it completely out of the water by nearly 15 pounds!
The Union Pacific Railroad locomotive engineer, 41, caught the beast in American Falls Reservoir Monday, Aug. 8. Apparently, the fight lasted 15 minutes…to see more pix and read the whole story, check out
KTVB.com 
Good news! It's now safe to get back in the water at Kerr Lake!
Small children, dogs and waterfowl can all breathe a collective sigh of relief at Lake Kerr in Virginia now that Jaws has been apprehended!
Just a hair short of a year after Greg Bernal made history with a 130-pound
IGFA All-Tackle
World Record blue catfish that he pulled from the Missouri River, Richard Nicholas Anderson of Greenville, North Carolina, landed this beast of a blue from Kerr Lake, Virginia. The massive cat weighed in at 143 pounds and qualifies for both the new potential All-Tackle World Record and the men’s 30-lb. line class record.
The big cat sucked in chicken livers (what, not a whole chicken??) and took 45 minutes to land.
Rafael F. Llamozas (left) of Salt Lake City hooked this jumbo speckled peacock bass in Columbia on a jig. The fish measured just a hair under 35 inches and qualifies him for a new potential IGFA All-Tackle Length record. The fish was released after the photo…
Kokanee: Not just mackinaw food anymore!
The legend of Oregon’s trophy kokanee factory, Wallowa Lake, continues! If you recall, the lake gave up an 8.23-pound U.S. record kokanee in March of 2010, an 8-pound, 13 ouncer two months later, and then the new all-tackle world record
9.67 pounder in June of the same year.
Then things hit a bit of a lull until June 2011 when Brian Russell bagged a mammoth, 26-inch, 7-pound, 8-ounce kokanee. What’s more impressive is he caught the fish on 4-pound test! To see all the details of the catch, go to
www.kentcannon.com
Holy cow…get a load of this nearly 70-pound California halibut! Frank Rivera of Camarillo, CA landed this 67.3-pound beast on Friday, July 1 off Santa Rosa Island while fishing aboard the 60-foot Mirage out of Oxnard.
The massive flattie is nearly nine pounds bigger than the current IGFA All-Tackle World Record, which also was caught off Santa Rosa Island in 1999, and, pending the application process, Rivera’s fish will take the top slot soon.
By the way, the Mirage struck again on July 3, with another massive butt — a 59.1 pounder — which you can see HERE
What happens when you cross a rockfish with a Mini Cooper...
There are two very impressive statistics relating to this enormous Convict Grouper taken by Koji Yoshida on a live amberstripe scad off Okinawa, Japan. First off, the leviathan weighed in at 264 pounds, 8 ounces, which is a whopping 126 pounds heavier that the current
IGFA All-Tackle World Record for the species!!
Perhaps even more eye-popping is the the fact that Yoshida whipped the fish in a lightning-quick 8 minutes! Dude’s got some skills…especially when you look at the gear he was using. Pretty light stuff, all things considered!
Barring any issues with the paperwork, this fish should be soon recognized as the largest Convict Grouper ever taken on rod and reel.
Peter Peter Vican, with his 77-pound, 4 ouncer. Back in 2008, he caught a 76 pounder!! We're not worthy...we're not worthy!
Peter Vican strikes again! The angler who, in 2008 landed a 76-pound, 14-ounce Rhode Island state record striped bass, put another feather in his cap on Sunday, June 19, 2011 when he bested this massive 77-pound, 4 ouncer! The beast is under a pound and a half under the All-Tackle world record and measured an impressive 52 inches and was a solid 35 inches around nearly nose to tail.
The mammoth bass sucked down a live eel near Block Island at 3:30 AM.
All I can say is damn!!! To read the entire account of he story, click here:
BoatingLocal.com