Could this be the next world record for yellowfin?
Read the whole story at my former longtime employers and good friends: WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS
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Read the whole story at my former longtime employers and good friends: WESTERN OUTDOOR NEWS
Holy beer batter Batman, 2011 may just go down as the “Year of the Halibut!” There were three absolute monsters taken last fall that are more in the “blimp hangar door” class than barn doors.
First up is this one above from Norway which weighed an almost hard to fathom 539 pounds! Here’s the link
This monster came from the waters off Gustavus, Alaska (near Glacier Bay) and was 95 inches long and weighed 482.5 pounds! Read more at Bloody Decks
Then there was the one from Iceland that tipped the scales to 485 pounds! See more at Outdoor Life
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Though alligator gar get to be the size of submarines, this 62-pound, 8 ouncer looks to be the largest ever taken on 16-pound test tippet and a fly rod and is a pending IGFA line class record.
Martin Arostegui of Coral Gables, FL, who has compiled more world records than anyone else in IGFA history, caught the big fish on Texas’ Lake Livingston on August 22, 2011 while working with Captain Kirk Kirkland.
Thirty minutes after the fish struck his custom fly, Arostegui was able to land, weigh and release the fish alive. With this catch, he kicked the living stuffing out of the current IGFA record, which is 24 pounds, 13 ounces!
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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
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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
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Robin's gotta get get some bonus points for the hat!
The fact that you can be just one cast away from glory on any given day is one of the things that makes fishing so damn cool. Just ask Robin J. Wood Sr. of Modesto, CA, who was fishing Pyramid Lake, Nevada on February 5, 2011 when he hooked into this beast of a lahontan cutthroat trout…which at 17 pounds, 4 ounces, is a pending IGFA 20-pound test line class world record.
The huge cutty bit a Blue Fox spoon and took 15 minutes to land…which is saying something, considering these fish aren’t the world’s greatest scrappers. Assuming all the paperwork goes through okay, Wood’s fish will easily best the current IGFA 20-pound record of 11 pounds, 6 ounces.
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Mmmm...cork...it's what's for dinner! (IGFA Photo)
Bo Nelson of Oro Valley, AZ was working an egg pattern on British Columbia’s Flathead River with guide Kim Sedrovic, when this tank of a bull trout came calling. The fish took 10 minutes to land and, upon being weighed, pulled the needle down to 14 pounds, which just may qualify it for a 12-pound tippet class world record.
Nelson’s catch bested the current 12-pound tippet record — a 12-pound bull that came from Montana’s Kootenai River back in 2003 — and is now being reviewed by the International Game Fish Association for consideration as a world record.
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Smile, dude...topwater is fun! (IGFA Photo)
You know me…I’m a huge fan of throwing topwater for anything that swims…but I’ve never come close to having my plug sucked down by anything like this pending all-tackle IGFA world record jack crevalle!
The 66-pound, 2 ouncer smashed a Willamson Jet Popper tossed by Carlos Alberto Leal Simoes, of Luanda, who was fishing Barra Do Dande, near Angola, Africa with guide Marcio de Oliveira Inocencio. The beast took 15 minutes to subdue and weighed nearly 8 pounds more than the current IGFA record, a fish that was also caught in Africa 10 years back.
Damn, I want some!
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