USA: monster record striped bass

Fishing on the boat Bada Bing, Cary Wolfe landed a 74-pound striped bass, which should top the Virginia state record by a pound. The fish, caught off Cape Henry, is pending certification, but was weighed on certified scales at Long Bay Pointe Marina.
Wolfe was fishing with the boat captain, Tim Cannon, and his brother-in-law and first mate Richard White when the fish hit. After a very slow day

USA: Potential leopard shark record landed

On December 31, a potential new International Game Fish Association (IGFA) world record leopard shark Triakis semifasciata was landed by Maria de la Luz Johnson in San Diego Bay, California.
She used a dead surfperch as bait. The record catch measured 162.56 cm in length and weighed in at 44 lbs 7 oz.
The current/valid IGFA all-tackle record for this species is a 40 lbs 10 oz specimen that was

GUATEMALA: Pacific Fin's billfish report

Here are a few highlights from the first 2 weeks of Jan 2012:

Jan 13 - 14 Joe Segobia, Robert Delaloye, Richard Rosencrans, Andrew Nugent, Michael Lovell, Lawrence & Jonathan Lunardi, Randall Villaire, James Vanalstine, Thomas Mooney, and Steven Sahinen arrived at Pacific Fins. In just 2 days fishing aboard Fortuna, Gypsy, and Maverick they raised 130 sailfish and released 85!

Jan 9 - 13

IRELAND: Pike to 17lb 8oz for anglers on Blessington

Josie Mahon, Fisheries Inspector, was recently fishing at Blessington with colleagues from IFI. It was a bright January day and though the fishing was generally quiet Josie soon had reason to be high spirits. Fishing a mackerel deadbait she had a good run which turned into a powerful, dogged opponent. After an exciting tussle the fish was finally banked and weighed at 17lb 8oz. After a quick

IGFA: January 2012 Hot Cathces

The new year begins with eight hot new catches from around the world! A striped bass in New Jersey, USA leads this month's IGFA report, followed by more great catches from Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Japan, Panama, and California and Wyoming, USA. Many of these potential record-breaking fish are still in the water waiting for the next angler; five of January's featured fish were released

ECUADOR: January 2012 marlin fishing report

La Niña effects have carried over into 2012 but signs are showing it may be slowing down. While fishing has not been as good as it should be at this point in a “normal” season it hasn't been terrible either. Boats out Salinas, Manta and Galapagos are reporting seeing and raising more numbers of marlin. The tuna fishing in Galapagos has been outstanding! The rains produced by warming water

THAILAND: Monster Mekong Catfish

Probably the biggest catfish ever caught by rod and reel. Here the story:
A retired naval officer landed an 18-stone fish using a tiny piece of sweetcorn as bait on a fishing trip.
Welshman David Kent, 54, battled the monstrous catfish for an hour while on holiday in Thailand with his wife Isabel.
David, of Tenby, had not caught anything in the lake in Krabi (Thailand) all day when the Giant

USA: Mako shark attacks a sailfish

A Sport Fishing Magazine has recently posted this amazing photo in one of its forum threads. The photo shows a shark that is breaching the water’s surface with a sailfish (Istiophorus spp.) in its mouth. The shark species is said to be either a mako or a great white shark. I would say it’s a mako shark.

USA: New walleye Illinois record

One of Illinois’ longest-standing fishing records was recently broken by a 15-year-old angler who caught a walleye weighing in at 14 pounds, 12 ounces.
Nick Tassoni of Rockford, Ill., started his fishing trip on the Pecatonica River with his father, Dave, at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. The two spent most of the cold January day trolling around the river for walleye.

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IRELAND: Biggest shark of last decade

The British media is saying this is the largest fish ever caught on rod and line in the waters of the British Isles. And it was caught by a 70-year old Swiss pensioner. It took Joe Waldis 35 minutes of almighty struggle to bring the 12’ 9” bluntnose six-gill shark to the side of his boat off the coast of County Clare in south-west Ireland, after it took his mackerel bait. This decisively smashes

CHINA: Mysterious monster fish caught

In the morning of January 3, at a reservoir in Zhejiang, China, fishermen caught a big fish, which was 1.92m in length and weighing 104 kg (229 lb)! According to the fisherman who caught it, it’s the biggest fish he had ever seen in the past 60 years. It could be a black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) http://amazingdata.com

CANADA: 911 lb Bluefin Tuna World Record approved

New Zealand’s Eryn Jacobsen definitely had a goal in mind coming to Nova Scotia (Canada) with her fishing gear in hand.
Having already broken 10 big game fishing world records, Jacobson set her sights on the bluefin tuna and record number 11.
At around 2:10 p.m. Sept. 28, she returned to the wharf at Ballantyne’s Cove with a 911 pound catch.
Mission complete.
“Just fantastic, I’m blown away,”

MEXICO: Picante Bluewater Sportfishing | Cabo Fishing Report

Daily Fishing Report:
With the Striped Marlin bite continuing to improve our guys found the fish on the last day of the year. An impressive 28 Striped Marlin were released by the Picante fleet. In addition the in shore bite is picking up with lots of Sierra Mackerel & Red Snapper being caught. Our boat of the day is our fast 32' Cabo Express "Picante Express" with Captain Antonio "Nino" Romero

USA FLORIDA: massive tiger shark caught

LMR Tackle is reporting about the capture of a huge tiger shark in the Miami area.
According to the fishing report published on their website (date: 22nd November 2011), the tiger shark, which measured over 15 feet in length and weighed over half a ton, was caught by the charter boat ‘Striker-1′ in about 100 feet of water. The captain of this vessel is Mark ‘The Shark’ Quartiano.
The killing of

THAILAND: home of giant Siamese Carp

A claim has been made that the world's biggest carp has been caught in Thailand by a local fisherman named Kik. Kik, who works as a guide for mainly European sportsmen, said the monster carp was caught caught on a homemade rod and was too heavy for the angler's scales.
Kik belongs to the Jean-Francois Helias' Fishing Adventures team and was trying to catch a Mekong catfish.
Instead he hooked

IRELAND: ISFC Annual Reports

This year (2011) the ISFC (Irish Specimen Fish Cometee) ratified almost 600 claims and four new Irish records were created. These figures compare favourably with
data for previous years.

In 2011 the ISFC received 674 claims; 587 were ratified, including four new records.
A total of 15 were rejected for non-compliance with the rules and a further 72 will be
queried further.