AUSTRALIA :Black Marlin Estimated at 1,100 Pounds

For 30 years, Bob Rich Jr. has been trying to catch a 1,000-pound marlin. Rich, 70, finally got his wish this month with a black marlin he caught out of Australia on October 5 that was estimated at 1,100 pounds. Bob Rich Jr. is the chairman of one of the world's largest frozen food companies and recently published a book called The Right Angle: Tales from a Sporting Life.

In the book, he tells

USA: huge 93 pound blue catfish

When Randie Lieneke watched a friend pull a 93-pound blue catfish out of the Missouri River several years ago, he made a simple goal.

“I’m going to catch one bigger,” he said.

In early October, that goal was met. Using a trotline baited with large shad, Lieneke caught a 95-pound blue cat near Wellington, Mo., where he lives.

That exceeded the 81-pound blue cat he and friends caught this year

USA: big 52.5 inch muskie in Ontario

Autumn in Northwestern Ontario might be chilly, but it looks like there's some amazing fishing. Ben Beattie, on his blog Ben Beattie Outdoors, posted these impressive photos of some huge muskie and walleye caught so far this fall. Ben is a writer and guide based out of Sioux Lookout in Ontario. He says the first of these fish was a 52.5-inch muskie.


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AUSTRALIA: Bligh Reef Lagoon Explorer

Highlights: Released 62 GTs between 9:30am - 2pm!!
UNBELIEVABLE - is the only way to describe our day.....Our day started well in the shallows with a triple hookup on red bass, followed by a huge bustoff on a 30kg GT on the light gear. After a few more trout and bass, we decided to fish our way west and start fishing some isolated reefs back towards our evening anchorage. This turned out to

CAPE VERDE:1150 lbs Grander Blue Marlin biggest of the season

Here the story of the biggest CAPE VERDE marlin of the 2011 season:
Our first fishing day on the AMELIA started at 6:30 a.m.. Our team: Jörg Donath (Angler), Zak Conde (Captain), "Scuba" Steve Hall (Mate), Towares Chyi (Mate) and myself. As the fish hadn't been biting around Sao Vicente, we pulled up anchor and headed for out next fishing spot, the sea between Noroeste-Bank and the island of

IRELAND: 183lb skate on 12lb rod

On a recent trip aboard my Red Bay Fast Fisher, the weather was horrendous with near gale force wind and torrential rain. Being quite “certifiable”, we still wanted a day out on the water somewhere, even if it was simply sheltered behind a headland fishing for pollack and wrasse. We opted for the north coast as this would give us a little protection from the strong southerlies. In the lee of

EQUADOR: Galapagos Island marlin report

Waters remain 71-72 F in most places fished. Most of the action has been on 0-30 aka Braden's Bank. A tremendous amount of birds, flying fish, tuna and marlin have been hitting this bank on and off the last 2 weeks. Water has been cobalt blue most days and winds have been relatively strong.Oct 11, 2011- Captain Yury Gutierrez onboard the Patricia had a walk on charter. They made the 28 mile run

MOZAMBIQUE: Bazaruto archipelago report

The Marlin Season off the Bazaruto as gone off to a great start with numerous releases over the past two weeks.
With excellent numbers of sailfish and game fish including big wahoo and yellowfin very few boats fished for Marlin over the last two weeks of September. Most choose to take advantage of the light tackle opportunities and had a ball chasing sailfish and game fish.
But conditions were

BRASIL - AMAZON: 2500 peacock bass caught!

This is my first report from the Brazilian Amazon and our Fly-In Floating Suites. The first group that experienced the Floating Suites had a great time and 8 anglers caught 2500 peacock bass in 6 & ½ days of fishing. Think about it, this is 50 fish per angler per day! They loved the “Floating Suites Experience!We just hosted Keith Kaneko of “Angling on the Fly”, who is Anglers Inn

A New Future for the Atlantic Salmon Reserve

As many of you will already have heard Peter Power, the founder of the Atlantic Salmon Reserve, has stepped down and handed over control and ownership to Vladimir Rybalchenko. Peter's vision, forethought and ruthless attention to detail has almost certainly done more to preserve the integrity of the Atlantic Salmon fishing in Russia than anyone else, past or present. His successor, Vladimir,

EQUADOR: Galapagos, Manta and Salinas Marlin Report

Winds continue to blow strongly making fishing quite rough. As October progresses we should see the winds begin subside much more. By November the winds should be much nicer and the rides out to the fishing grounds much more pleasant. Water has remained 72 -73 F for the most part around Rosa Blanca and cooler closer to the island. Marlin have been scarce with a few tailers reported seen mainly

IGFA Hot Catches News October 2011

“Think pink” is this month’s theme! French, Japanese, Australian, Portuguese and American anglers – four of them with pink-hued fish – are awaiting word from the IGFA on whether their hottest new catches will be approved for World Records. If approved, these nine anglers will collectively add three All-Tackle, two All-Tackle Length, two line class and two tippet class records among freshwater and

KENYA boats on the podium at Latham Island tourney

Latham island is a small uninhabited rocky isle that rises out of very deep water forty miles out from Dar-es-Salaam, notable because of the great variety of gamefish in it’s vicinity. This tournament has become an annual fixture with excellent sponsorship, and due to it’s popularity there are not enough game fishing boats locally for all the contestants. So every year at this time a fleet of

COSTA RICA: Crocodile Bay Lodge report

There is a reason Crocodile Bay Resort closes every year in October. One is because we need to do some deep cleaning on the boats, bottom paint and do a tune up on the motors. The other reason is why I am writing this under an umbrella. October is our rainiest month. Just before the rain started, Crocodile Bay used their open schedule to invite a group of 14 kids from the local high school out to

CAPE VERDE: 506 kg (1120 lb) biggest marlin of the season

From the moment we arrived on the island of Sao Vincente in the Cape Verde Islands the word on the dock had not been especially encouraging, more specifically, we had soon learned, very few marlin had either been seen or caught during the past few weeks; the general feeling was that the main run of fish had migrated through. Our first of five days fishing booked aboard ‘Dimeu’, a 40ft Pace sports